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Example sentences for "uneasy"

Lexicographically close words:
unearthly; unease; uneasie; uneasily; uneasiness; uneatable; uneaten; uneath; uneconomic; uneconomical
  1. He felt a strange, uneasy sense of some one staring at his back.

  2. The uneasy tyrant hates young Aaron--hates him for the gold he has borrowed from him, hates him for his scarcely concealed contempt of himself.

  3. While the latter comports himself as carelessly as though a White House is an edifice of every day, the Man of Monticello goes as far the other way, and feels all the uneasy anger of him who is on the brink of being robbed.

  4. With a certain awe Babbitt and Chum Frink called on Eathorne for a meeting of the Sunday School Advisory Committee; with uneasy stillness they followed a uniformed maid through catacombs of reception-rooms to the library.

  5. They will be uneasy if we do not come home to-night.

  6. Masseron had grown uneasy at your absence, he would have been just as successful.

  7. They were particularly interested in the Englishmen, who as nearly as I could tell endured the scrutinizing pretty well, whereas the Frenchmen grew uneasy and self-conscious under it.

  8. We saw a good many people, though, who were taking for the moment an acute and uneasy interest in their own affairs, at the big city prison, where we spent half an hour or so.

  9. Bourget's visit, and the dreadful possibilities suggested by the blank envelope, had left her ten times as uneasy as before.

  10. He had said that, so far, the other side had made no sign, and he was evidently uneasy that their confidence appeared unshaken.

  11. She was growing uneasy because no letter came from M.

  12. Beaudrillart was more uneasy than she allowed.

  13. Amelie, who had more than once glanced in his direction, became at last uneasy at the profound stillness; she laid down her work, and half rose, resting her fingers on the table.

  14. The lawyer darted an uneasy look, and his manner changed.

  15. But as the day for her weekly visit had not come round, he was not uneasy until this arrived and passed without tidings of her.

  16. He falls into an uneasy slumber, and in the middle of the night is startled to see a green huntsman leave the tapestry and turn into the "well-fa'urd auld gentleman" before his very eyes.

  17. In his enchanted castles we are disturbed by an uneasy suspicion that the inhabitants are merely allegorical characters, and that the spectre of a moral lurks in some dim recess ready to spring out upon us suddenly.

  18. He was uneasy when away from home, and constantly felt as if something had happened.

  19. In his uneasy dreams he mixed up all his experiences, the travels of his youth, his work and difficulties.

  20. The old couple trotted round them anxiously; their eyes gleamed with pleasure at the unexpected visit, but they were uneasy about their furniture.

  21. I do not see how this fatal result can possibly be avoided; and so uneasy and anxious am I on the subject, that I have no rest or peace.

  22. With much difficulty, from the uneasy state of the sea, he managed to secure a cord round the drowned man's wrist, and with an ax severed the rope which tied him to the mast.

  23. She was favored with the knowledge of every painful sensation as it passed, and every uneasy thought as it arose.

  24. He was still allowed to go at large, but was always observed to look with a suspicious and uneasy eye at the death-cart.

  25. The Parson then conducted his wife home, and went up to the Hall to report Lenny's safe return; for the Squire was very uneasy about him, and had even in person shared the search.

  26. The Morells had not been uneasy about her.

  27. She spoke again in the same uneasy voice: "Then you do not believe that either God or Satan is involved?

  28. And his questions revealed a knowledge which was making the girl more sensitive and uneasy every moment.

  29. I am always uneasy when he is absent," she said quietly.

  30. He threw out a commonplace at random, from his uneasy consciousness.

  31. When she was once in the field, the hush of the night, the heat, and her own uneasy thoughts bewildered her.

  32. At the same time, there was the tie of old habit, and of that uneasy and unwelcome responsibility with regard to her which had descended upon him at the time of his father's death.

  33. Everything is done to minimise the place and office of the altar, to exalt the less important functions of worship, and to prevent comfortable consciences from being uneasy in the realisation of the presence of God.

  34. She had an uneasy suspicion that it was offensive, and that was all.

  35. Uneasy and oppressed, she entered the carriage with Ella, where her friend, who had been long waiting for her, received her with open reproaches.

  36. But this poor Suzanne, knowing that she only was converted out of terror, has always had an uneasy conscience, and the sight of me has stirred up everything.

  37. Her unlined face showed that she had found her niche in this uneasy world, and was no longer as in all her earlier years a drifter through life, terrified by the possibility of fatiguing herself.

  38. And a few uneasy vanities, such as the equally ignored Mr. Harvey, found a healing comfort as she did herself in their respectful adulation.

  39. Oliver excitedly, as the note rang out very clearly now, but for a long time, though they strained their ears, there was no farther sound, and they grew more and more uneasy till all at once there was a heavy thud as of some one falling.

  40. Drew rose to his feet to stand gazing wildly at the bright illumination which showed plainly enough the overcome men lying in uneasy attitudes as they had fallen.

  41. Think Mr Rimmer would be very uneasy if we stayed here for the day and did a little collecting?

  42. Hark at those tiger things, too, how uneasy they are!

  43. All this made him a very uneasy and unhappy old man.

  44. I have been paying some old debts," I say, with an uneasy laugh.

  45. But the students now are uneasy with the fear of ridicule, and more often they walk in bowler hats and the neat coats of the boulevardier.

  46. It had those false, difficult smiles of uneasy gaiety, and the pitiful graces which attempt a fascination that the hurrying years have rendered vain.

  47. It made Susie vaguely uneasy that there was no sign of his existence.

  48. Don Quixote bade him not be uneasy about deserting the animals, "for he who would carry themselves over such longinquous roads and regions would take care to feed them.

  49. So you have no cause to be uneasy about stripes too many or too few; heaven forbid I should cheat anyone of even a hair of his head.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uneasy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abashed; afflicted; agitated; anguished; anxious; apprehensive; awkward; bad; bashful; beset; bored; bothered; breathless; chagrined; chapfallen; cheerless; complaining; concerned; confused; cranky; depressed; disappointed; discomfited; discomposed; disconcerted; discontented; disgruntled; disgusted; displeased; disquieted; dissatisfied; distressed; distrustful; disturbed; doubtful; eager; embarrassed; envious; excitable; excited; fearful; feverish; fidgety; flustered; fluttery; foreboding; fretful; fretting; frightened; fussy; grim; grousing; grumbling; hasty; impatient; impetuous; irritable; joyless; jumpy; malcontent; misgiving; mortified; murmuring; muttering; nauseated; nauseous; nervous; nervy; panicky; peevish; perturbed; petulant; queasy; queer; querulous; rebellious; resentful; restive; restless; revolted; sad; shaken; sinking; solicitous; squirmy; strained; suspicious; tense; tentative; troubled; troublous; turbulent; unaccommodating; uncomfortable; uneasy; unfulfilled; ungoverned; unhappy; unquiet; unsatisfied; unsettled; upset; zealous