How to Use unsettle in a Sentence

unsettle

verb

• Such a sudden change will unsettle her.
• What unsettles us, though, is a pause.
  — Essence, 3 Mar. 2026
• What unsettled me more than the cat was this man’s patience.
  — Jennifer Wolfgram, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• In fact, there’s not much that could unsettle him or his approach.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2024
• Back at the school, staff and students were unsettled.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
• Even some of the basics are still unsettled.
  — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
• But the shooting guard spot is unsettled.
  — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
• There was something else unsettling about them.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
• As a woman trying to write about the truth, this unsettles me.
  — Karissa Chen, Longreads, 8 July 2017
• That unsettled him because he was used to the little cramped space.
  — Stuart Spielman and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2024
• The group ended in one way, unsettled, but having hashed all this out.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
• And many will be unsettled, in multiple ways, for years to come.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
• First — is there any truth to Nkunku’s feeling unsettled at the club?
  — Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
• After the cold front has passed, the air mass will be chilly and unsettled behind it.
  — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Apr. 2026
• But peace can be unsettling too, which the poem can capture.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
• Others were unsettled by the sight.
  — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
• Now, decades later, the sound of fireworks still unsettles her.
  — Jerry Wu, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• The woman admitted she was deeply unsettled by the news at the time.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
• What unsettles me just as deeply is the anti-immigrant mood on the ground.
  — Valeng Cha, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
• Putin has a long-track record of trying to wrongfoot and unsettle the West.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2023
• Each day, there are reports of unsettling global events that reshape our view of the world.
  — Hannah Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• Fans were becoming unsettled by a lack of progress — and a refusal to adapt.
  — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• Will old styles of provocation still have the power to unsettle us?
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• While some kids might have been unsettled by the setting, Hollis loved it.
  — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
• Kate could tell she was still unsettled by her daughter's explosion in the kitchen.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
• But the movie may unsettle purists who feel that torch needs to be passed around to a more diverse crew of musicians.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
• The film is set in a vibrant but unsettling party which is spinning out of control.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Our feeling of gravity is unsettled since the three figures sink and rise in the swell.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 7 Dec. 2019
• Mr Ramaphosa kept him on until the budget so as not to unsettle markets.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• Own it, and other people's comments will lose a lot of their power to unsettle you.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022