How to Use disconcerting in a Sentence

disconcerting

adjective

• The macro view is more disconcerting.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
• Stray Hairs Stray hairs lingering in the tub drain, on the floor, or in the sink can be quite disconcerting.
  — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 19 Jan. 2026
• The findings are deeply disconcerting.
  — Stephanie Silverman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
• The abruptness is disconcerting but can be overcome by learning the pedal’s nuances.
  — James Raia, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
• There is nothing more disconcerting than seeing rolls of toilet paper bobbing down the hallway.
  — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
• Perhaps as disconcerting as anything is the lack of circumstances that would create such confusion.
  — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
• There was a brief, disconcerting interlude of quiet from the Argentina fans after that.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
• And things grow even more disconcerting when Miss Giddens begins seeing things and hearing voices.
  — Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
• In the finale, Matthew’s scenes with K Callan, who plays Ruth, are really disconcerting.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
• None of the emails unearthed so far appear to indicate criminal activity, but are—like the photos—disconcerting.
  — Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 31 Jan. 2026
• Overall, more disconcerting for staffers at the network are Paramount’s plans for significant layoffs later this year.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
• The picture exudes both grace and vulnerability, and hints at imperfection by way of a disconcerting, coral-like wrinkle that mars the foot’s heel.
  — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
• Here, the opening sentence is disconcerting because the speaker is coming back to a physical space, but is returning from an absence, which is not a physical space.
  — Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
• Ultimately, swarms of AI could combine in rather disconcerting and dangerous ways.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
• The result was a disconcerting 31-28 loss that relegated the Chiefs to 2-3 and leaves us to question anew just who and what this team is.
  — Chris Ochsner, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
• Another clip shows the robot scuttling across the floor, both impressive and disconcerting, prompting reactions ranging from awe to genuine unease.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
• For the next few months, though, O’Connell’s riding the high of Sir Jimmy Crystal’s disconcerting magnetism.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026
• That alone would be disconcerting, but that the line (dubbed the Petrova Line, after the scientist who discovered it) seems to be linked to a new, gradual dimming of the sun?
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2026
• Cellos and basses may be rumbling along on a frighteningly low melody, as the woodwinds are pecking like a riot in a chicken coop, while the high strings are sustaining a cluster of odd, disconcerting notes.
  — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
• The only disconcerting note for reigning champion Bayern was the withdrawal at halftime of Manuel Neuer.
  — ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
• Easily the most disconcerting — nay, infuriating — moments in the trailer were when celebrities were introduced into the game.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
• There are plenty of inconveniences frequent air travelers have become accustomed to, from long security lines to shrinking overhead storage bins, but few are as disconcerting as heavy turbulence in flight.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
• The traditional avenue for dealing with this disconcerting situation would be to hire specialist counselors trained as therapists and psychologists and station them at the schools for ready access by students.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Other content, however, could be so disconcerting that it is assumed never to produce meaningful debate, and news outlets (and other platforms) need to make difficult decisions on how to identify and remove such content.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026
• About 20 miles southwest of Indianapolis, Mooresville residents report finding dirty water filters turning a disconcerting brown.
  — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 31 Mar. 2026
• The Garfield of the book is, so far anyway, the Garfield of the show, carrying a humility and nobility that’s frankly disconcerting coming from Michael Shannon, who’s usually cast as more wayward types.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
• That is really, really, really disconcerting.
  — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 1 May 2026
• The Land of Spooks is a phantasmagorical blend of twisting gothic spires, impossible land formations, and disconcerting expressionist proportions.
  — Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2025
• The disconcerting scene offers a glimpse of what actually happened to Will while he was trapped for most of Season 1 and suggests that Will may still be impacted by whatever Vecna put inside him at the beginning of the story.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
• Even his portrayal of a man with advanced dementia, in The Father (2020), which won the Academy Award for Best Actor, emitted a disconcerting power.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025