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Example sentences for "unnerve"

Lexicographically close words:
unnecessarily; unnecessary; unneeded; unneighbourly; unner; unnerved; unnerves; unnerving; unnethe; unnethes
  1. It would unnerve her to look him in the face and know that she was his wife, and that he had a right over her from henceforth.

  2. She is so much shaken by this whole thing that she is afraid to talk about it, lest it will unnerve her.

  3. Yet our precursory and reiterated humility did not unnerve our arms nor subdue our minds, when it became necessary to fling off the trammels of oppression.

  4. The sisters durst not embrace, but gazed at one another, feeling that it might be their last look, their hearts swelling with unspoken prayer, but their features so restrained that neither might unnerve the other.

  5. The advancing flood, tossing against the livid sky, was so awful as to unnerve him, and he was just half way across.

  6. For these habitual players at Monte Carlo are very superstitious, and it takes but little to unnerve them.

  7. He stopped us in the midst of our plea, apparently through fear that representations, which must have carried conviction to his prejudiced mind, might tend to soften his obdurate heart, and unnerve his purpose towards us.

  8. To know it to a certainty, would only tend to unnerve and dishearten us.

  9. A volley of wild yells burst from the mob, sufficient to unnerve many who had not before heard such cries.

  10. For she wanted to unnerve his stubborn nature by means of cunning sounds.

  11. What strong heir or well-starred son would have sat side by side with such as these, letting a shameful bargain utterly unnerve the warrior?

  12. But why torture myself with imagined ills, when the dread realities are sufficient to unnerve my soul!

  13. Paul's hopeless derangement seemed to unnerve that cold-tempered, persistent will.

  14. The sight and Paul's words unnerve his will.

  15. It was not my purpose to tell you thus, I though it would too completely unnerve me, and I wrote the story of my life in the form of a drama, and called it Infelice!

  16. The harsh, threatening voice, cleaving the twilight solitude, where a moment before Vipan had imagined himself absolutely alone, was enough to unnerve a less resolute hearer.

  17. These two delicately nurtured women would require all their resolution on the morrow; there was no need to unnerve them with an instalment of horrors to-night.

  18. Few men have ever been permitted to drink of the richness of the revelations that await you; and in view of these expectations the fact that you are prematurely aged in appearance should not unnerve you.

  19. The journey you have commenced is far from its conclusion, and you may not be equal to its subsequent trials; prepare yourself, therefore, for a series of events that may unnerve you.

  20. This unusual experience is sufficient to unnerve you, but you need have no fear, for you are not in corporal danger, and can relax your grasp on my person.

  21. Tom," I said, "this place is enough to unnerve any one.

  22. Why try to unnerve me when I require all my courage to struggle against my despair?

  23. He must not allow these thoughts to unnerve him.

  24. Somebody wasn't a good marksman, or had let blind rage unnerve him and spoil his aim.

  25. If a single scream could unnerve me that much it had to be bad.

  26. Here are some of the most promising topics: Naval psychological warfare techniques used by the Caribbean pirates to unnerve prospective victims.

  27. This darkness seemed to unnerve him, to start him wide awake with a feeling of chill fear.

  28. Then suddenly she became alive to the fact that a little more of this sort of speculation would utterly unnerve her.

  29. The tremendous scandal would unnerve all the moral force of his legislation, which was the base of his prestige.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unnerve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abate; agitate; alarm; attenuate; blunt; castrate; cramp; cripple; crush; damp; dampen; dash; daunt; deaden; debilitate; demoralize; discomfit; discourage; dismay; disquiet; dull; emasculate; enervate; enfeeble; exhaust; extenuate; frighten; funk; jade; mitigate; overcome; panic; perturb; prostrate; rattle; reduce; rock; ruffle; scare; shake; shatter; spook; stagger; startle; sterilize; throw; undermine; undo; unman; unnerve; upset; weaken