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Example sentences for "perturb"

Lexicographically close words:
pertinently; pertinet; pertly; pertness; pertoire; perturbation; perturbations; perturbed; perturbing; perty
  1. My master Chaucer that founde ful many spot, Hym lyste not gruche, nor pynch at every blot; Nor move himself to perturb his reste; I have perde tolde, but seyd alway his beste.

  2. Lydgate assures us, from what he heard, that the great poet would not suffer petty criticisms "to perturb his reste.

  3. One is a philosopher, and reposes with an air that says, "Even this last indignity of being weighed against my will cannot perturb my soaring spirit.

  4. A number of contrary forces clash and perturb them, as they perturb and rend individual souls.

  5. After the distrest voices that perturb you, you shall know the voices that relieve and console.

  6. Being so small any large surface features of Mars would probably act to perturb the orbit of the satellite.

  7. Do not perturb yourself, I beg of you," she said in a sympathetic voice.

  8. Those questions seemed to perturb her, for of a sudden she cried loudly, indeed she almost shrieked in terror: "Ah!

  9. An incident not so uncommon as greatly to perturb the travellers; they passed on and came to Puteoli.

  10. Why should it perturb you, O most excellent Decius,' said the sage, 'that a lover of wisdom is an offence to the untaught and the foolish?

  11. They cannot appreciably perturb either the planets they approach or each other.

  12. No, for then it would perturb Saturn and Jupiter also, and they were not perturbed by it.

  13. They are perturbed by the sun, of course, but they also perturb each other, and Jupiter is far from spherical.

  14. They are themselves perturbed plentifully, but they perturb nothing; hence we learn that their mass is small.

  15. All that we can be sure of is that they are smaller than a certain limit, else they would perturb the planets they pass near.

  16. It must be admitted, however, that the fragments of our supposed shell might in the course of ages, if left to themselves, mutually perturb each other into a different arrangement of orbits from that with which they began.

  17. The only consequence of their smallness is their inability to perturb others.

  18. If he is passionless, it is not that he has no passions, but that they no longer perturb and mislead.

  19. There intervene, however, many other causes which perturb this proportion.

  20. The presence of the spurious child does not greatly perturb the babblers.

  21. The existence of such facts does not perturb in the least those theorists who "rule the roost" in the scientific world.

  22. For Either, one of the parties to the concealed compact receives or pays attention which perturb the other; or, a subsequent and acknowledged lover looks askance at the previous entanglement.

  23. Nay, lesser things than this will perturb this irascible organ: that the other should admire her charms--that she should accept such admiration.

  24. The women who perturb men most are those who combine too effectively adorableness with desirableness.

  25. Nay, he expressly declared 'Atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves as looking no further.

  26. Will any one have the hardihood to say religion did never perturb states, or that the times inclined to religion (as the times of Oliver Cromwell) were civil times, or that it makes man wary of themselves as looking no further?

  27. The effect of a change in the current produced by such new channels as we have described as forming across the isthmuses of bends is to perturb the course of the stream in all its subsequent downward length.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perturb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abash; abrade; addle; affect; afflict; aggravate; agitate; annoy; beat; becloud; beset; bewilder; bother; bug; burden; churn; cloud; concern; confuse; convulse; daze; dazzle; demoralize; derange; disarrange; discomfit; discomfort; discompose; disconcert; dismay; disorder; disorganize; disquiet; distract; distress; disturb; electrify; embarrass; entangle; excite; exercise; ferment; flurry; fluster; flutter; fog; fret; frighten; fuddle; fuss; get; harass; inconvenience; jar; jolt; jumble; maze; mist; muddle; nettle; paddle; perplex; perturb; plague; pother; provoke; psych; puzzle; rattle; rile; ripple; rock; roughen; ruffle; rumple; shake; shatter; shock; spook; stagger; startle; stir; swirl; throw; torment; trouble; unhinge; unnerve; unsettle; upset; vex; whip; whisk; worry