How to Use disturbing in a Sentence

disturbing

adjective
  • The disturbing video is hard to watch.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2026
  • All of this is strange and disturbing.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • What’s disturbing to me on a gut level is twofold.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But the details of the case are even more disturbing.
    — Scott Maxwell, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2026
  • The movie tells a disturbing story, and yet there’s truth to it.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the passages in the book were disturbing.
    — Julie K Brown, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • So, that’s the disturbing (thing).
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Most disturbing about the Game 3 blowout was not the who, but the how.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Many of the disturbing videos appear to have been posted in the last two days.
    — Khadijah Khogeer, NBC News, 27 June 2023
  • This disturbing trend has taken on a couple of forms — so far.
    — Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The disturbing trend is adding to mounting losses due to fraud.
    — Carter Evans, CBS News, 19 July 2023
  • The constant threat of being laid off can be deeply disturbing.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Both sounded kind of disturbing and lacked any soul or feeling.
    — Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Ghosts that wink could be scary but the face Sal makes is disturbing in other ways.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Of trying to find beauty in these very disturbing times.
    — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Key Largo has a new, disturbing and first-of-its-kind graveyard.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
  • Some readers may find the content of the video disturbing.
    — Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Why is this attack so disturbing?
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • What followed was even more disturbing.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Police have made no arrests in the disturbing case.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • There’s a disturbing trend in classrooms.
    — Peter Smagorinsky, AJC.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Jacob Cockcroft finds that one of the most disturbing parts of the case.
    — Kyani Reid, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • But there has to be a plan between now and Thursday to erase this disturbing trend.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • This is a disturbing book that does not suggest a happy outcome.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • An adaptation that manages to be much more disturbing than its source text.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The first video on the incident was disturbing.
    — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The White House last month called the video tragic and disturbing.
    — Samira Puskar, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Keira, a junior, said current events have been disturbing.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026

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