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Example sentences for "disturbance"

Lexicographically close words:
distrustfully; distrusting; distrusts; dists; disturb; disturbances; disturbe; disturbed; disturber; disturbers
  1. The disturbance in the street had been occasioned by the frantic behavior of a man with a musket.

  2. In this there was much that reminded one of the specious totality of old wood-work which has rotted for long years in some neglected vault, with no disturbance from the breath of the external air.

  3. Had there been any traces of recent disturbance we should not have failed to detect it instantly.

  4. This disturbance may well have been connected with the disruptions of the 845 persecution of Buddhism.

  5. This disturbance lasted until the breaking-out of the uprising, and must have been a prognostication of it, and a sign of what the devil was devising to disquiet the Christians of this village.

  6. The viceroy, the mandarins, and all knew of the return of the father, and even knew where he was lodged; but no disturbance arose, and the authorities paid no attention to the matter.

  7. The father, when the disturbance was over, immediately set about burying the dead and putting the village in a situation to defend itself from any other similar attack.

  8. But the disturbance created by her presence was very different from that excited by the entrance of this student.

  9. A disturbance had broken out on a remote part of the ground, and, noticing about twenty negro men and women seated on a log near by, I went in that direction, in hopes of meeting the negro trader.

  10. Coming to him, however, from the world outside, a disturbance of the atmosphere struck his senses, causing his blood to run cold.

  11. Maskull laughed again; he was feeling a strange disturbance of spirit.

  12. The laughing disturbance of the air, too, had ceased; but the atmospheric throb was now twice as distinct as before, and its rhythm had become double.

  13. It was about two weeks after the arrival of Link Bardon at Yale that some little disturbance was occasioned throughout the college, when an announcement was made at chapel one morning.

  14. Andy was aware of a disturbance in the front of the house.

  15. It is not unlikely that during the last few centuries some intestine disturbance may have occurred along the axis between the two, sufficient to account for the precipitation of that mass of rock which now forms the dam.

  16. It was impossible to make a disturbance and he was obliged to give up the point.

  17. It came from disturbance so much deeper than her little head had ever known.

  18. Whether it was this disturbance that had broken her rest, she did not really know.

  19. They'd be very useful if any disturbance occurs.

  20. I suppose there are enough here," glancing round as he spoke at the Hottentot servants, as well as at Matamo and Haxo, "to secure him against disturbance or attack.

  21. With great austerity Don Ramon pointed out that this trifling with the entrails of the earth was not only an indignity to Nature almost equal to shaft-sinking and tunneling, but was a disturbance of vested interests.

  22. Luck supplied the place of prudence; for people knew not how they were to live in the meanwhile, yet no fresh disturbance occurred fact which shows the goodness and obedience of the people, subjected to so many and to such strange trials.

  23. It was accomplished in excellent order, and without disturbance from the enemy; but our loss was very great, many officers of rank being among the dead.

  24. At the sound of the engine they once more took to flight, and the violent play they made with their heels suggested to Tim that they indignantly resented the disturbance of their meal.

  25. In all probability news of the affair at the hacienda had only just reached the Prefect, who might reasonably regard it as a trumpery disturbance that could be left to his subordinates.

  26. What is this important matter that justifies the disturbance of my rest?

  27. Something in the awful disturbance of his organic system had so exalted and refined them that they made record of things never before perceived.

  28. This custom is the more laudable, as it requires a clear head to apply to business in the course of the day; and as no wine is drunk till evening, no drunken people are seen in the streets in open day creating disturbance in the city.

  29. There they vent their slander, calumny, and malice against me and the whole quarter, to the disturbance of the peace of the neighbourhood, and the promotion of dissension.

  30. Amid great disturbance the ships' captains attacked the images of Vitellius and cut down the few men who offered any resistance.

  31. In the general disturbance Otho's position was difficult.

  32. All through the disturbance of the civil wars no troops kept cleaner hands.

  33. They had been an auxiliary force attached to the Fourteenth, and in the general disturbance had deserted the legion.

  34. But his 49 last reflections were interrupted by a sudden disturbance and the news of a mutinous outbreak among the troops.

  35. The tilting had commenced, when the king rose suddenly with signs of disturbance in his manner, left the court, and rode off with a small company to London.

  36. While the disturbance in Ireland was at its height, affairs in England had been scarcely less critical.

  37. To the Englishman the perpetual disturbance appeared a dishonour and disgrace; to the Celt it was the normal and natural employment of human beings, in the pursuit of which lay the only glory and the only manly pleasure.

  38. Thus, if one molecule is disturbed from its mean position, it communicates the disturbance to its neighbours, and so a wave is propagated.

  39. The actual effect was disastrous: the restrictions thus placed upon commercial freedom brought about a disturbance of the food supply in non-productive countries, many traders were ruined, and the edict soon fell into abeyance.

  40. Along with these local phenomena there is evidence of constitutional disturbance of the most severe character.

  41. World to enjoy your self in, and all your numerous and rising Posterity Adore and Honour you; what need those remote Things be any disturbance to you?

  42. All along its course a momentary disturbance of London equanimity was created.

  43. One would not suppose, walking about the streets, that any disturbance was impending; and yet there is no doubt that the materials of one lie smouldering up and down the city and all over the country.

  44. It is rumoured here that the Liverpool people are very uneasy about some apprehended disturbance there at the same time.

  45. Armies were moving, fierce passions were aroused, schemes of vast ambition and disturbance were disclosing themselves; and at such a moment the only intervention possible was an intervention of the sword.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disturbance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ado; affection; agitation; apprehension; baffle; bluster; boil; boiling; bother; brawl; broil; bustle; cacophony; care; chagrin; chaos; churn; cloud; commotion; concern; confusion; convulsion; daze; derangement; dilemma; disarrangement; disarray; discomfiture; discomposure; discountenance; disharmony; disintegration; disjunction; dislocation; disorder; disorganization; disproportion; dispute; disquiet; disruption; distraction; distress; disturbance; dread; ebullition; effervescence; embarrassment; embroilment; enigma; entropy; excitement; fanaticism; fear; ferment; fermentation; fever; fidgets; fight; fix; flap; flurry; fluster; flutter; fog; foment; fomentation; foreboding; fracas; fray; frenzy; fuddle; fume; furor; furore; fury; fuss; harassment; hassle; haze; hubbub; hurry; incident; inconvenience; inquietude; interruption; irregularity; jam; jar; jumble; maelstrom; malaise; maze; melee; mess; misgiving; mist; moil; mortification; muddle; mystery; nervousness; noise; pandemonium; passion; perplexity; perturbation; pickle; plight; pother; predicament; presentiment; problem; promiscuity; pucker; puzzle; quandary; racket; rage; rampage; restlessness; riddle; riot; roughhouse; rout; row; ruckus; ruffle; rumpus; scene; scramble; scrape; scrimmage; seething; shindy; shuffle; shuffling; solicitude; stew; stir; storm; strain; suspense; sweat; swirl; swirling; tempest; tension; trauma; trepidation; trouble; tumult; turbidity; turbulence; turmoil; twitter; uneasiness; unrest; upheaval; uproar; upset; vexation; vortex; whirl; zeal