How to Use uneasily in a Sentence

uneasily

adverb
  • As his dread and fear reach a fever pitch, we are uneasily forced to choose sides.
    — Jenny Offill, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Williams sought to do it through betrayals and lies, which sat with him uneasily.
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Those two systems now sit on top of each other, uneasily.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 8 May 2026
  • Most of this sits rather uneasily with the evidence.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Her sense of her rights coexists uneasily with the world into which she’s been thrust.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Even so, the current focus on the rest of the world surely sits uneasily with parts of his base.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And yet the three of them straddled two cultures as uneasily as the Otomi.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • After their initial shock, the home crowd at The Jane groaned uneasily.
    — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 24 May 2018
  • They are often shown walking uneasily through public spaces, weighed down by their thoughts.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2018
  • This extreme trust sits uneasily against an extreme paranoia about our gadgets.
    — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2026
  • Even as cheap shots of downtown LA’s skid row try to jam in social context uneasily.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The two tuxedo cats skittered uneasily away from her, afraid of what kind of chaos this toddling creature would bring into their lives.
    — Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 7 Feb. 2026
  • And while this convection is brewing, the tip-top of the blue planet is also shifting uneasily.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Some are dead, while others are among the thousands lingering uneasily in refugee camps or paying high rents elsewhere in the city.
    — NBC News, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Why do those premises sit together uneasily?
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a transience to the town today that sits uneasily alongside its ancient castle-crown and its timeless white cliffs.
    — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The officer got the man to exit the car, and the officer noted the man moved slowly and uneasily.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Customers ventured uneasily into the new landscape, which sometimes looked a lot like the old landscape.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • The bass offers muffled comfort, an accordion weeps, and even the drum stick clicks wobble uneasily.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2024
  • For 50 years, that status quo held uneasily, as subsequent peace efforts failed.
    — Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
  • But the visceral value of these objects sits uneasily beside the painful history of how some of them got there in the first place.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Tweets confirmed that the crowd inside the Dolby Theatre laughed uneasily at first, but then grew silent.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2022
  • In this uneven but peculiarly potent movie, the violence of the past looms uneasily over the present.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
  • But the villain costume sits uneasily on Swift’s shoulders, and even worse, the songwriting just isn’t there.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • But the villain costume sits uneasily on Swift’s shoulders, and even worse, the songwriting just isn’t there.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • Both sit uneasily in a politics that treats freedom as self-executing.
    — Philip Martin, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The first episode of the show has landed a bit uneasily with critics, who view the show as something of a crisis communications project.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Scanlon’s treatment plans swung uneasily from one to the other as conflicting models ruled the day at the hospital.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2024
  • Momoa plays Dante like a flamboyant Disney villain, which is a cute change of pace but fits uneasily in the world of the movie.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 17 May 2023
  • The heavy-handed symbolism of this last image sits a little uneasily with the semisatirical mode in which the story has been rendered.
    — Houman Barekat, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024

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