How to Use perturb in a Sentence

perturb

verb
  • It perturbed him that his son was thinking about leaving school.
  • At one point, even Skeet seems perturbed.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Could strong winds perturb the layers?
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Your own model of it doesn't perturb anything at the end of the day.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
  • Each of these can get perturbed in different ways.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • However, some users are perturbed by the new home screen.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026
  • For its part, Peloton doesn’t appear to be perturbed by the ban.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The former are short missives which do not perturb the ecosystem.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2013
  • Fitch coached in his grating style, perturbing many of the players.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Becca, by the way, isn't perturbed that her breakup was on television.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • McGahn was perturbed by the call and did not intend to act on the request.
    — Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2019
  • Some users were perturbed by Obuzic’s stories.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Demi herself looks perturbed but moves on quickly.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Later in the game, Kelce became perturbed by his team’s lack of focus.
    — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Sweeneys and the Fords are perturbed by the police’s handling of the case.
    — Erin Logan, baltimoresun.com, 22 July 2019
  • Solène doesn’t seem perturbed, and this is the beginning of me feeling insane.
    — Emma Soren, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Initially, he was perturbed by the fact that the front door was not aligned with the center of the entrance hall.
    — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 21 Aug. 2015
  • Initially, he was perturbed by the fact that the front door was not aligned with the center of the entrance hall.
    — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 15 May 2023
  • Running back Josh Jacobs was just as perturbed.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Brunson was clearly perturbed by the sound of his friend chewing while in front of a microphone.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • For now, the Russia allegations seem not to have perturbed him much.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • We're not perturbed by the stock's back-to-back weak sessions following the earnings report .
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • She's perturbed when one of her residents turns up dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker and Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But they both were perturbed by the lack of innovation in the auto industry.
    — Brett Smith For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The algorithm next perturbs one of the qubits used to carry out those operations.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Two years later, during my senior year of college, a thin film of dizziness perturbed me for almost three months.
    — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
  • For months, the startling image of the lurid leader marching down the Mall has perturbed the public.
    — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 12 June 2017
  • Trump said he was perturbed by the Ukrainian leader’s resistance.
    — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Adames looked more perturbed than angry, putting his hands on his hips before taking off his helmet and slowly walking to first base.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Neighbors perturbed by the spectacle said the emojis were intended to mock them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020

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