How to Use disconcert in a Sentence

disconcert

verb
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  • News of his criminal past has disconcerted even his admirers.
  • That, in the 2019 version of the NFL, is disconcerting.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • The dance begins with all the performers seated on a bench at the rear of the stage, backed by a wall of disconcerting green.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The results must have been disconcerting for some of them.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 4 July 2018
  • From blood and gore to ghost, goblins, and creepy masks, the season can be disconcerting.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The only thing that was disconcerting for me was that, for me, the Goo Goo Dolls were sort of this pop-punk band that used to play in shorts and t-shirts and jeans and stuff.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
  • Might have been most disconcerting losing two of three at home to Colorado, the sort of series the Pirates must win.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • Though all the signals coming from the palace have been positive so far, the news is disconcerting.
    — Tara John, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Parents have watched changes in their teens that have been disconcerting.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Yet Trump did not appear to be disconcerted by Kim’s move.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
  • There’s something disconcerting about a team that has to give up 51 points in a quarter to finally take a look in the mirror.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Upon docking Reed is disconcerted to find Van der Berg waiting for him by the pier.
    — Christopher Byrd, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
  • But the fact that trust and safety has been so busy on AI is something that makes these layoffs disconcerting to people on the outside.
    — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The other has the aftertaste of a protein shake and a disconcerting mouthfeel.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
  • But the degree to which NBC had been dubious of her illness claims was disconcerting.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Brandon also testified about the disconcerting drawing the shooter made on the math worksheet on the day of the shooting.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Listeners may walk away feeling more disconcerted than before — and that just might be the point.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2018
  • Some listeners have found the result disconcerting: people raised on the South Side seem to have been possessed by the spirit of Arnold Schoenberg.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Still, the mistake was disconcerting for a group seeking to defend its Olympic title from 2012 and add to the luster of its World Cup triumph last summer.
    — Jay Schreiber, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2016
  • Diller was part of the effort to persuade Biden to drop out of the race after his poor debate performance and other disconcerting signs on the campaign trail.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 26 July 2024
  • With each turn of the watercolor-dappled page comes a new and slightly larger dinosaur to disconcert the one before.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • The idea that those brands could be abandoned was disconcerting for the snowsports retail industry.
    — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • Throwing firecrackers at the stage, which is kind of disconcerting.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 20 July 2023
  • That seems the best way to process the eerie, disconcerting, accidental enchantment of this week’s images.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • That is a stinging criticism for what and where UConn is right now, and disconcerting if one is considering where the team is headed.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The shifts from football game high jinks or a character’s apple-bong-toking abuelita to the question of whether to shoot another teenager in the head are disconcerting, to say the least.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Its resurgent power has surprised and disconcerted the West.
    — Nigel Gould-Davies, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2018
  • For those with less curiosity, such dreams might be disconcerting, and so their impact is lessened.
    — Pavel Krapivin, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Calculations on how many homeowners are at risk and how many are covered vary, but all are disconcerting.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • For such a significant portion of companies to have scored so low is disconcerting, given the ubiquity of plastic in the fashion supply chain, in particular through the use of synthetic fibers like polyester and nylon.
    — Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024

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