How to Use disturbing in a Sentence

disturbing

adjective
  • The movie tells a disturbing story, and yet there’s truth to it.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The White House last month called the video tragic and disturbing.
    Samira Puskar, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • That still wasn’t as disturbing as the sight of Solène washing her feet in the crew mess sink.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 17 June 2025
  • Many of the disturbing videos appear to have been posted in the last two days.
    Khadijah Khogeer, NBC News, 27 June 2023
  • Jacob Cockcroft finds that one of the most disturbing parts of the case.
    Kyani Reid, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The disturbing doll-like skaters glide and spin on a stage so small that just staying on it is a great trick.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Ghosts that wink could be scary but the face Sal makes is disturbing in other ways.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
  • End of carousel Imagine if the boyfriend weren’t disturbing.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The steep rise in syphilis cases was the most disturbing aspect of the report, Park said.
    Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Key Largo has a new, disturbing and first-of-its-kind graveyard.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
  • The crime scene inside the home was gruesome and disturbing.
    Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
  • And in this case, Johnson expects the video to be disturbing.
    Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2024
  • But there has to be a plan between now and Thursday to erase this disturbing trend.
    Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Just a few weeks later, in April 1962, the FDA received a disturbing phone call.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Some of that is due to a disturbing lawsuit that was filed and then dismissed within the span of three weeks in 2022.
    Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • The most disturbing thing about the Red Wings’ place in the standings is not merely their win/loss totals.
    Max Bultman, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • These are just some of the disturbing incidents that have taken place in the last 10 days alone.
    Tess Owen, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The disturbing trend is adding to mounting losses due to fraud.
    Carter Evans, CBS News, 19 July 2023
  • That’s not because the thought of a coughing pig is any more disturbing than that of a coughing cow.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • And the most disturbing images had been scrubbed off that video, Israel said.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The constant threat of being laid off can be deeply disturbing.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • At last—rather disturbing—count, the Titan has 40 hours of breathable air left.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 21 June 2023
  • The actions came amid a disturbing increase in hate crimes.
    Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The lack of caring about my childhood was so disturbing.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The most disturbing of them: Are the mothers castrating their young?
    John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 29 June 2023
  • Finding the right balance of disturbing and adorable was a big challenge.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 27 May 2025
  • But the deeply disturbing use of the technology in this way is not novel.
    Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • As a mother of two boys in public schools and the product of public schools myself, this news was disturbing to say the least.
    Andrea Campbell, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Pound away at the disturbing underbelly that AI lies and makes things up.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • At the opening of the film, Amber is talking about her disturbing drawings with a school counselor.
    Devonne Goode, Parents, 6 Aug. 2025

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