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Example sentences for "perturbed"

Lexicographically close words:
pertness; pertoire; perturb; perturbation; perturbations; perturbing; perty; peruerse; peruke; perukes
  1. This was not a sight to still his perturbed spirits; on the contrary, the moment seemed to him so favourable, that it irresistibly occurred to him to seize it for removing every doubt.

  2. He is a watcher; and a watcher, restless and perturbed himself, infests all he pursues with uneasiness.

  3. Thomas Lewis was well acquainted with a man who was similarly employed by a perturbed spirit, and was at the man's bedside when he died.

  4. Her mind seemed to be far more perturbed about her daughter than about the heathen rogues and their conspiracy.

  5. When Charles leaned to intolerance, the Pope grew favourable to him, and Francis turned a friendly eye on the perturbed Protestant League.

  6. Then the dead were believed to rise from their graves and go about the streets, vainly endeavoring to enter the temples and the dwellings, which were barred against these perturbed spirits with ropes, buckthorn, and pitch.

  7. M146) Another instance of a Greek attempt to quiet the perturbed spirit underground is instructive, because similar efforts are still made by savages in similar circumstances.

  8. She was only a little less perturbed than her father.

  9. Again she read that particular paragraph which had so perturbed her.

  10. It was easy to see that her night had been a perturbed one, that she had enjoyed little or no sleep.

  11. It was that life--all the voices of the animal creation, all the perfumes and soft shadows of the flowers and trees--which perturbed them to such a point as to make them angry with one another.

  12. He was perturbed by the heat that emanated from the litters, the life that crawled under the hair plucked from the does' bellies, exhaling powerful emanations.

  13. Serge gazed down askance at Albine's face, and she felt perturbed beneath his glance.

  14. And the red ones grinned with apoplectical faces which perturbed them.

  15. On Sunday, the night before, I was the lecturer at John Street The audience was composed largely of delegates to the dreadful Convention that so perturbed the "Iron Duke.

  16. Whether the perturbed Rector of St Ive found out anything, or whether ashamed, as he might well be, at being mixed up in so miserable a business, he retired from it, and the Rev.

  17. The Administration was greatly perturbed in December, too, by the news that two American vessels had been sequestered at Bordeaux.

  18. The Administration had hardly time to applaud Wayne's victory when it was greatly perturbed by an insurrectionary movement in western Pennsylvania.

  19. And whilst her woman's nature was perturbed by this gust (and women seem more subject to gusts than men) came that terrible animal, a busybody, to work upon her.

  20. Much perturbed he worked harder than ever at the office and regretted that he had promised to drive out of town to a wedding.

  21. Finding himself alone, in the midst of that numerous assemblage, the young man felt sorely perturbed and lost the assurance which he derived from his friend's neighborhood.

  22. We were looking for you, attractive youths," said Monsieur Gerondif; "we were perturbed in spirit.

  23. Cherubin was exceedingly perturbed in spirit as he entered the delicious little recess and seated himself on the couch, which was not very broad, so that he was necessarily very close to the other person upon it.

  24. An Indian chief approached him, read through the darkness his perturbed look, and offered to lead him by a better path along the margin of the sea.

  25. I, for instance, monsieur, enter a cemetery at night as little perturbed as though it were the arbor of the White Horse.

  26. Mac- Guffog appeared before Glossin with a head perturbed with brandy and fear, and incurred a most severe reprimand for neglect of duty.

  27. To his amaze, she did not seem perturbed in the way he had dreaded when she began to tell what she had seen.

  28. Ynys and Alan were glad to be alone, and yet Annaik's absence perturbed them.

  29. But he was even more perturbed by the fact that, before she relinquished his hand, she stooped abruptly and kissed it.

  30. At that time the club was perturbed by the coming Harding-Cox election.

  31. His paternal heart was slightly perturbed by a railing that ran round the top of the stairs.

  32. I know that Judge Brandies went home hurriedly, very much perturbed at what he heard and saw, which was so contrary in everything to the spirit of the declared policy of England.

  33. I much perturbed our good Rabbi by chaffingly suggesting to him that we had been erecting an altar to Baal, in a grove, in one of the high places!

  34. Well, I make no secret of a perturbed night.

  35. Why, then, did the Austrian demand such secrecy from the yacht's crew, and be so perturbed by the advent of a letter addressed to one of them?

  36. As they neared Alfred's house, Johnson could feel waves of increasing anger circling around his perturbed young employer and later when they alighted from the taxi it was with the greatest difficulty that he could keep pace with him.

  37. The psychological condition of society to-day is of an extremely perturbed nature, as slight reflection will suffice to show.

  38. Now the morning (a Thursday) following the day on which the above conversation had taken place, Mrs. Stephens came to Professor Richet, and told him she had passed a very strange and perturbed night.

  39. The disturbances experienced by the planets are much smaller, because they are controlled by the sun and perturbed by each other.

  40. The ocean as it revolves round the earth (being held on by gravitation just as the moon is) is perturbed by both sun and moon.

  41. The motion even of our own moon (the lunar theory) is difficult enough: perturbed as its motion is by the sun.

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

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

  44. It was perturbed by the outer planets near which it went, so that in past times it must have moved in a slightly different orbit.

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

  46. The moon is controlled only by the earth, and perturbed by the sun.

  47. The moon as it revolves round the earth is perturbed by the sun.

  48. He was standing dismayed, a slim, perturbed young fellow in khaki, with a grip in one hand and a canvas gun case in the other, when some one touched him on the arm.

  49. He watched the perturbed John Ivan Jewel depart under guard, and his eyes were not half so stern as his tone had been.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perturbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abashed; abroad; adrift; afflicted; agitated; amiss; angry; annoyed; anxious; apprehensive; astray; awry; beset; bewildered; bothered; chagrined; chaotic; chapfallen; cockeyed; concerned; confused; deranged; disarranged; discomfited; discomposed; disconcerted; dislocated; dismayed; disordered; disorderly; disorganized; disoriented; disquieted; distracted; distraught; distressed; disturbed; embarrassed; excited; fearful; feverish; fidgety; flustered; foreboding; frantic; guessing; harassed; haywire; irked; jumbled; jumpy; lost; misgiving; misplaced; mortified; nervous; nervy; perplexed; perturbed; plagued; puzzled; restless; roily; shaken; shook; shuffled; solicitous; strained; tense; troubled; troublous; turbid; turbulent; uncomfortable; uneasy; unquiet; unsettled; upset; vexed; wild; worried; zealous