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How to use the word UNNERVING in a Sentence?

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The precedence of this is just unnerving for election officials across the country, and it should alarm every American in the country.

Kim Wyman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s an incredible experience. I’ve never had something like that, it was a little bit unnerving, but it was exceptionally awesome, too.

Phil Mickelson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a sobering moment, you know the possibility is there, but for someone to say your test came back positive ... was definitely unnerving.

Chris Warner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

And to the real Dr. Fauci, thank you for your calmand your clarity in this unnerving time, and thank you to the medical workers, first responders and their families for being on the front line.

Brad Pitt

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I've read his column in The( Washington) Post for some time now, i think it's very distributing. It's very unnerving. We just need to get the clear facts from both governments -- the Turks, it's an interesting question -- but from the Turks and Saudi Arabia. ... As an elected leader, we stand with you in the media in solidarity to making sure that this does not go unnoticed and that we stand and fight for answers to we can bring transparency and accountability to this kind of thing.

Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's a lot more fun today than it was yesterday, yesterday it was just too unnerving.

Mark Clawson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's a volatile period and as an investor I feel this was unnecessary. His term was ending in September anyway, they could have waited until then, what Mr Rajan wanted was to build a stronger institution and that cannot be one person, the market understands that. What's unnerving is the timing.

Salman Ahmed

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

What Mr Rajan wanted was to build a stronger institution and that cannot be one person, the market understands that. What's unnerving is the timing.

Salman Ahmed

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

But I doubt it's finished ... This silence is ominous. It's almost as unnerving as the rockets landing.

Abdullah Karasu

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

People want to see stability in that market and every time they think there’s maybe some stability, it seems to leg down, for equity owners and some of the high-yield owners that are tied to energy, it is a little unnerving that it can’t really seem to find a stabilized floor.

Rick Meckler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I would take the Metro down and we would stop at the Pentagon station, there'd just be this feeling of dread even pulling through the station. The first time I was back in the building, I could still smell that kerosene smell, which was unnerving.

John Thurman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think everyone thinks it's going to work its way out, but at the same time, it's a little bit unnerving what's going on over there and the lack of control that they seem to have on the situation.

Bryden Teich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The fact that a sheriff's deputy allegedly battered a patient at San Francisco General Hospital is unnerving, what's worse is that he's also alleged to have perjured himself on a police report, unforgivable conduct that led to the arrest of the innocent victim.

George Gascón

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Stranger

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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