How to Use unperturbed in a Sentence

unperturbed

adjective
  • The phone at Fey-Way rang with death threats, but Opel was unperturbed.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Seo-rae seems rather unperturbed by this fact, and even by the photos of his body, filthy with feasting insects.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And yet the women, like the tree, stand unperturbed, defiant.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
  • My mother-in-law seemed quite unperturbed by the accusatory tone of the question.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Stakeholders in the paintings and their success seemed unperturbed by the red flags.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The animals were unperturbed, many of them lounging 30 feet or so off the road.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 12 July 2018
  • Looking away from you, unperturbed, with a glint of green shining off their sunglasses.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2020
  • How could people be dying in one area of this festival and so unperturbed in others?
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The kakapo kept her distance while the switch was made but quickly returned to the nest, seemingly unperturbed.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The kakapo kept her distance while the switch was made but quickly returned to the nest, seemingly unperturbed.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The interesting thing here is the bird is seemingly unperturbed by this whole thing.
    — National Geographic, 9 July 2019
  • The innkeepers seem unperturbed — amused, even — by potential spirits in their midst.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Her late-19th-century garb is half undone, but her sun hat unperturbed.
    — Jane Borden, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The subject herself seems unperturbed by the sudden gender shift.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The stock market seems unperturbed, but the situation is dicey.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Will the law continue forth as written and be unperturbed by waffling politicians?
    — Steve Tengler, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • The only people in the clip who seem unperturbed are Dafoe and O’Hara.
    — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
  • But teenagers inside are unperturbed, streaming off the coach and through the open gates, screaming with excitement.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • When the researchers play a call from a mouse in the same nest, however, the striped mouse carries on sunbathing, unperturbed.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
  • So far, too, Treasury yields are tame and public corporate debt spreads unperturbed.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 Feb. 2026
  • But if the cormorants are being hunted, what explains the presence on each boat of an unperturbed bird perched on the gunwale?
    — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
  • With markets looking unperturbed, that might turn out true sooner if nothing serious comes in the way of the bulls.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The crowd seemed unperturbed, introducing themselves in the chat.
    — Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Ingold, the freelance journalist, is unperturbed by the failure to convince artists to pull out.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2024
  • But still, even with the consequences, Putin may just continue unperturbed.
    — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The villagers seemed unperturbed that the presence of soldiers could bring Russian strikes upon them.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Yet, the birds, unperturbed, continued their descent.
    — Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The dog looked unperturbed, but pet lovers on social media roasted Bloomberg for his maladroitness.
    — Clive Wynne, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Swords are drawn as Daemon approaches the king; Daemon walks right up to the pointy end of one sword, unperturbed.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
  • For someone so fiercely protective of the spies in his charge, Lamb seems unperturbed by the younger Cartwright’s death.
    — Hayden Mears, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2024

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