How to Use disconcert in a Sentence

disconcert

verb
  • News of his criminal past has disconcerted even his admirers.
  • Parents have watched changes in their teens that have been disconcerting.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The line between the two is seamless and not at all disconcerting.
    — Timothy Depeugh, Charlotte Observer, 3 Apr. 2025
  • From blood and gore to ghost, goblins, and creepy masks, the season can be disconcerting.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Thomas’ absence from the field for the entire spring has been disconcerting.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 17 June 2025
  • Yes, Biden had gone into that disconcerting whisper mode among that one clutch.
    — Jake Tapper, New Yorker, 13 May 2025
  • Though all the signals coming from the palace have been positive so far, the news is disconcerting.
    — Tara John, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Listeners may walk away feeling more disconcerted than before — and that just might be the point.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
  • Her self-possession is at points a touch disconcerting; breaking eye contact is not her style.
    — Funmi Fetto, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The dance begins with all the performers seated on a bench at the rear of the stage, backed by a wall of disconcerting green.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Throwing firecrackers at the stage, which is kind of disconcerting.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 20 July 2023
  • These numbers are disconcerting for a number of reasons.
    — Roberta Matuson, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The idea that those brands could be abandoned was disconcerting for the snowsports retail industry.
    — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • The other has the aftertaste of a protein shake and a disconcerting mouthfeel.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes the images are grim, sometimes chipper, often a disconcerting blend of the two.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • And disconcerting moments are in the show, such as the larger-than-life black widow spiders that dangle from the ceiling.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The young actor has a disconcerting awareness of the roiling potential of his changing body.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The movie opens with a screening of his black-and-white movie, which disconcerts Tom because of its echoes of his own youth in this community.
    — Stephen Farber, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
  • But with 95 games remaining, their season hinges on a disconcerting number of maybes.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2025
  • Upon docking Reed is disconcerted to find Van der Berg waiting for him by the pier.
    — Christopher Byrd, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
  • There’s something disconcerting about a team that has to give up 51 points in a quarter to finally take a look in the mirror.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a lot of disconcerting news about AI in journalism lately.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The news is disconcerting for nearby residents like Moody.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Might have been most disconcerting losing two of three at home to Colorado, the sort of series the Pirates must win.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • That seems the best way to process the eerie, disconcerting, accidental enchantment of this week’s images.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • This imbalance is perhaps not expressly disconcerting much of the time.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Brandon also testified about the disconcerting drawing the shooter made on the math worksheet on the day of the shooting.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But the fact that trust and safety has been so busy on AI is something that makes these layoffs disconcerting to people on the outside.
    — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
  • There doesn’t seem to be anything untoward or disconcerting about this interest in physical health and well-being.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But Musk is still training plenty of fire on the bill itself — a stance that is sure to disconcert GOP leaders.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 5 June 2025

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