Unnerving

//ˈʌnˈnɜːvɪŋ//

"Unnerving" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The company is running so well, it's unnerving.

Mary's unnerving to be around, because she's so finicky about everything.

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do 'practice'?

The increase in incidents of terrorism is really unnerving.

Things like that can be unnerving.

What Tom is doing is very unnerving.

It was unnerving to be there.

The sound was so deep and unnerving.

Stories of shark attacks are unnerving for those who enjoy swimming in the ocean. They deepen the controversy about how close humans should even get to these animals. While defenders of sharks acknowledge they should be treated with a healthy dose of fear, they also say sharks are highly misunderstood. Of over 380 types of sharks, only 3 or 4 kinds are known to attack humans, and there are fewer than 80 such attacks a year. On the other hand, many types of sharks are on the verge of extinction, due to human fishing practices. VOA-TV's Zulima Palacio went diving with a woman who takes divers under water to experience "swimming with sharks".

The feeling of being watched is one of the most unnerving things to me.

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Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia (fear of cooking) and oneirophobia (fear of dreams).

The situation was unnerving, and dangerous.

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