How To Use Disturb In A Sentence

I'm sorry to disturb you, but can I talk to you for a moment?
Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!
To equate Tim McVeigh as a patriot is the mark of a sick and disturbed mind. Think Progress » Fox News host Julie Banderas
The calced Augustinians also made their elections -- but not so quickly that we could avoid sending to them to remind them not to allow the disturbances of other times to occur in their chapter -- by having made them beforehand through their devotion to the outgoing provincial, who managed the succession for another as worthy as he. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
The earth was rich with undisturbed deposits of leaf mould and beech mast. Times, Sunday Times

But one day he disturbed her privacy and barged into her room, presumably to force more work on her, while she had it out.
The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
I am honestly disturbed by last Monday's shooting of the booter on the city's South Side. The Parking Ticket Geek: Don't Shoot The Messenger: Take Action!
Women who have a history of early-onset premenstrual mood disturbances and dysmenorrhea are more likely to experience an improvement in their premenstrual mood.
But physical disturbances from outside the embryo can have the same effect.
It is not surprising that the mortality due to feather pecking, cannibalism and parasitic diseases can be disturbingly high.
You can put the 'blackie' up in some quarter of the house where he can move about at will without disturbing any of your own servants, and can get in and out at all hours; he will be useful, you know, in prowling about the grounds at night and ascertaining if the lady really does go to bed when she retires to her room. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
Don't disturb me while I'm working.
But somehow this latest encounter with Matthew had been even more disturbing than their encounter in the cupboard.
In closing, I would like to reflect upon what I think was the most disturbing, and unnoticed, subtheme of Van Sant's film biography of Harvey Milk. Archive 2009-01-01
Management's withdrawal from the negotiations greatly disturbs us.
A Muslim group here in Washington, D.C., now revealing what it knows about the investigation, and what it describes as a disturbing farewell video left before they headed off. CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009
Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness. Henrik Ibsen
They are best left undisturbed where they will naturalise and multiply. Times, Sunday Times
At their recent meeting the Parish Council were disturbed to find that both these bills have increased substantially.
Police say they have arrested twenty people following the disturbances.
As they wait to land, they burn jet fuel, pollute the air and disturb the lives of people below. Times, Sunday Times
She left strict instructions that she was not to be disturbed.
Prior to European settlement (pre-1850), a wide variety of disturbances characterized the region, ranging from frequent small-scale and localized events such as treefall gaps to rare, large-scale events such as stand-replacing fires and epizootic outbreaks. Eastern Cascades forests
A private company has been handed the task of taking Scotland's most disruptive and disturbed state school pupils and educating them away from home.
He'd placed his notes in the brown envelope. They hadn't been disturbed.
Clacton police have received five reports from elderly people in the area who have received the disturbing letters, which claim to be from clairvoyants and demand money.
Sleep disturbances are very common in the weeks leading up to a heart attack. Christianity Today
This non-automatic numbering has the advantage that if a text refers to the numbers, insertion or deletion of an item does not disturb the correspondence.
It creates a startling atmosphere of intensity and highly unusual inwardness - sometimes disturbing - and makes it utterly distinct from anything in Western dance and theatre.
The quality of the brickwork is the best that I have ever seen, and not a single brick was disturbed beyond those actually removed. Autobiography
Hannah's remembrances of things past, however, are sometimes skewed by subtle dissonances and a sense of anxiety that disturb the apparent placidity of his picture-perfect world.
Over the top rhetoric makes sense for the illiterati that the GOP courts to win their votes, but feeling the need to use it for the party power brokers is a disturbing new concept. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010
The untitled volume lay undisturbed for more than 150 years and was found during a clear-out.
It is a disturbing, dark tale and perhaps one the victims might have been better left to recover from in peace. Times, Sunday Times
He called the case disturbing and said it underscores the pervasiveness of cyberbullying.
They managed to shift about half of the mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed patients to homes and less restrictive programs.
Any band activity would supposedly disturb his equilibrium so he is forbidden to leave the house and is watched round the clock. Times, Sunday Times
It's very disturbing, the way they're getting rid of older employees.
An owl hooted across the compound, and a paraquet disturbed by the outcry uttered a shrill, indignant protest. The Lamp in the Desert
But adults say they believe there are tastier burgers elsewhere, a disturbing fact when Census Bureau trends show an aging population.
Personal relations have become restless, fretful, often disturbed by an itch for change and variety.
Many children have become emotionally disturbed as a result of the abuse they have suffered.
When young people cause disturbances in public how often do us adults intervene? Times, Sunday Times
When you disturbed them the seeds of rose-bay willow-herbs lifted like air bubbles into the beam of light.
Don't shake the bottle or you will disturb the lees.
Lactose intolerance can be defined as a gastrointestinal disturbance, but the two terms are not synonyms. Lactose Intolerance Doesn't Cause Bad Breath
Their cravenness on immigration is deeply disturbing.
I am disturbed that under this new parliament we are seeing a private individual buying public opinion.
Irrational or disturbed emotional reactions, however, are often maladaptive.
Chuck was happy that his daughter was smart enough to jump a grade, but at the same time, it disturbed him. She was growing up so fast.
All day the eye of the sky bulges, lidless and forgiving until darkness comes to roost undisturbed in its lashes.
According to contemporary investigation, the processes of succussion or trituration disturb the atomic state of a drug substance by jolting electron (negative charge) out of its orbit.
A gamine ingenue to her sophisticated divorcee, she plays this streetwise waif with the same knowing naivety that made the 12-year-old such a disturbingly seductive assassin's helpmate in her first film, Leon.
Disturbingly, NONE of the promised 1.15 billion in aid from the U.S. has materialized. Mark Schuller: Unstable Foundations: Human Rights of Haiti's 1.5 Million IDPs
By day, follow expert Masai guides on foot to spot lions, cheetahs, and wildebeests without disturbing their habitats.
Hey. I'm Solan. Sorry for disturbing you these days.
Yet there is something disturbing about the show. Times, Sunday Times
But all in all, what with the weather and a degree of jadedness occasioned by a bit of sleep disturbance, it's not been a thrilling day.
Harry had rather disturbing visions of Mark in every hotel and catering establishment they entered, asking if he could see the kitchen. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
A plump, fast running bird which keeps to the undergrowth, the black francolin only flies when disturbed.
I struggled out, disturbing the lazy whatsits as little as possible, and yawned my way in the general direction of the unusual sounds.
Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
Doctors already know to avoid them in patients who are particularly susceptible to heart rhythm disturbances. Times, Sunday Times
The lack of civility is very disturbing," said Terrence C. Donilon, the archdiocesan spokesman. Catholic Blogs Aim To Purge Dissenters
Divers even pick up these dozy little sharks, but if you do that you will find yourself with a suddenly alert fish that is probably a bit narked at being disturbed.
The fact that she herself had only one such dress, an organdy hand-me-down from Rockelle that was worn once a week to Sunday school, was disturbing.
Why does a conductor so fastidious and precise with an orchestra always seem so blithely undisturbed by such unidiomatic, out-of-tune singing?
If this arrangement is disturbed, the body sickens; if it is sufficiently upset, the body dies.
That is very much part of the social bargain whereby writers are "left alone" to implement their craft, as opposed to being harassed or hounded out of existence; they get their NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and everyone is happy since the power equations in society remain undisturbed. Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
The details are a bit hairier as they involve isentropic lifting this morning, an upper-level disturbance later today and finally the approach of a cold front this evening. Houstonist
Other reports have cited severe and uncontrollable pain or bleeding, major injury with shock, impending birth, and uncontrollable mental disturbance.
Why, there, if a college student comes downtown with a flareback coat and heart-shaped trousers and one of those nifty little pompadour hats that are brushed back from the brow to give the brains a chance to grow, they arrest him for collecting a crowd and disturbing traffic. At Good Old Siwash
At one point, a tiny disturbance was noted on the far horizon, and the group began to panic, thinking that an enemy force was hunting them down.
I hate to disturb you.
What is disturbing about the rebates is not the rebates themselves, but the fact they're a one-shot.
I don't want to disturb him too much and being grouchy doesn't make me feel very cuddly anyhow, so I head out quickly and hope that the walk to work will clear my head a bit.
This upsets and disturbs the Fifa family. Times, Sunday Times
The barogram of the 29th was remarkable for its waviform trace, and it may be that the air-waves propagated by such a disturbance can be transmitted a very considerable distance.
Worse still, he smells and if you're unfortunate enough to get next to him on the cross trainer and he starts really pumping it, it can cause disturbed breathing that leads to a fatal arrhythmia.
The story of secrecy, scientific ethics and national security is macabre, grisly and disturbing.
The background music is played at an unobtrusive level and there is little or no traffic noise to disturb you.
The impunity of police and denial of due process to victims is disturbing to rights activists.
But the sharp decline in peasant disturbances in the pre-war years pointed to peaceful development.
For example, in earlier studies, sleep disturbances have been associated with a compromised immune system.
The flickering firelight revealed an appearance that was most disturbing.
There was something additionally disturbing about her for a male spectator. Times, Sunday Times
It affords a possible mechanism through which may be produced the recognized glaucomatous effects of certain nerve disturbances. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
Several other typical mesophytic forest species, both shade-intolerant and shade-tolerant, have declined, perhaps due to an absence of large-scale disturbance needed for their regeneration.
Once the father was imprisoned, new and even more disturbing allegations began to emerge from the children.
Don't disturb yourself for me.
but since the "literature" of the hack is so perverse and disturbing in its "message," the term clownish is too light and good natured to be appropriate. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
A closer look at the census figures shows a much more disturbing trend.
I'm disturbed that so many of the students appear to be illiterate.
Deep beneath the Nebraska prairie lurks a vast bunker that has lain undisturbed for nearly four decades. Marvel Solicitations for January 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
By day, follow expert Masai guides on foot to spot lions, cheetahs, and wildebeests without disturbing their habitats.
The inquiry unearthed some disturbing evidence.
If the bulbs are planted deeply it is possible to leave them undisturbed for two or three years although acid or neutral soil will have to be limed.
Disturbances in this ration can alter cardiac rhythms, transmission and conduction of nerve impulses, and muscle contraction.
As a professional animal trainer, I was disturbed when my own dog developed a bad habit.
This was disturbing news to the South, whose naval capabilities were modest.
The state defines unlawful assembly as a threat of ‘tumultuous disturbance of the peace.’
The communities are divided into three main categories: gorges, plateau uplands, and disturbed areas.
The warning to teenagers - whose ages range from about 14 - follows scenes of disturbance outside a fast food restaurant in the High Street.
The game is centered on rookie homicide detective Lazarus Jones, who is called out to a disturbance in an abandoned high school with his partner.
One contained an undisturbed ship burial, including many Anglo-Saxon artefacts of outstanding historical and archaeological significance. Times, Sunday Times
He would watch for the telltale disturbance of phosphorescence in the water which meant the fish were rising on the ebb tide.
The entire outside of the building is lit up every night in a disturbingly bright shade of aubergine.
The fact that he was willing to do damage to the country with useless concessions to a party that has proven itself a moral and intellectual failure to them on his side was extremely disturbing, and the fact that he succeeded not at all in unsurprising. Matthew Yglesias » Yglesias on Maddow
Fireworks are not private nor personal as they disturb and frighten people and animals for miles around.
This book tells a fascinating and disturbing story that frightened me nearly to death.
I held in my hand a single black candle, it's flame flickering as my body disturbed the air around it.
Zarate did mention that his patients suffered certain adverse events, including “perceptual disturbances, confusion… increased libido…euphoria and derealization.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
He remembers his African upbringing fondly, at least up until civil disturbances began to intrude on his world.
The father, especially in posh families, was largely absent or not to be disturbed. Girls Like Pink ...Fact
Sinus tachycardia is usually a physiological response but may be precipitated by sympathomimetic drugs or endocrine disturbances.
A woman dressed in a grey babygro reads a story about a man and his imaginary children which features a mildly disturbing maternal death. Richard III; Lullaby; Hundreds & Thousands – review
H.G. Wells wrote a disturbing short story called 'Aepyornis Island' in 1894.
Moreover, both loss and gain of Notch function cause hyperkeratosis as a consequence of hair cycle disturbance PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
There has been a disturbing rise in the number of young, female and lone parent claimants, and a third of new claimants cite mental health conditions.
Ionizing radiation can affect the characteristics of the electrode processes and disturb their kinetic equilibria.
Going back to my chair, I found that neither jacana, nor gallinules, nor herons had been disturbed by my shot. Edge of the Jungle
Less than four percent of the forested land is currently set aside in forest reserves and left undisturbed by forest management today.
Horace Greeley, editor of the "New York Tribune," the leading Republican journal of the North, contented himself with referring to Brown and his followers as "mistaken men," but added that he would "not by one reproachful word disturb the bloody shrouds wherein John Brown and his compatriots are sleeping. The end of an era,
I had expected a degree of disturbance and interruption as I switched over to Retirement Pension from Incapacity Benefit, and still do.
He and others: while again Mirabeau, we say, is cast forth from it, happily incapable of being replaced; and rests now, irrecognisable, reburied hastily at dead of night, in the central 'part of the Churchyard Sainte-Catherine, in the Suburb Saint-Marceau,' to be disturbed no further. The French Revolution
Infrared decoy which is used to disturb enemy infrared tracking system and infrared hide star shell which improves stadia of infrared equipment are paid great attention by army.
In the semi-arid context, dunes can revegetate quite naturally and quickly once the initial disturbance has been removed.
Kristoff is speaking conspiratorially, as if sharing a deep and disturbing secret, although it is well-known to anyone who has been following the emo-violence story that gay rights groups have called for tolerance. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
Despite the disturbing number of abnormal births and other radiogenic illnesses affecting the human population, life below the surface of Rongelap seemed to be quite healthy in 1996.
Only his heavy breathing disturbed the quiet as an old friend walked to within two feet of him. Times, Sunday Times
But thanks to double bogies front and back, wide tracks, and a mighty handy boom, ground disturbance is kept to a minimum.
Second, small partially digested food proteins, called peptides, from gluten and casein can act to disturb the normal neurotransmitter function in the brain, and third, they can act as “excitotoxins,” increasing glutamate an excitatory neurotransmitter and creating a chain reaction that overexcites, injures, inflames and ultimately kills brain cells. The UltraMind Solution
The I-V and V-F converter design for mode of feedback current amplifier is introduced. Method of reducing noise disturbance is discussed in detail.
She spent all her hours in a deep slumber, her hands tied to the bed so that she could not disturb the tubes that connected her wasted body to life.
I hope I'm not disturbing you.
Police detained them for causing a disturbance, although officers took their petition and passed it on.
We built a small Hartmann - Shack wavefront sensor for measuring atmospheric disturbance characteristics.
But he was disturbed by her pet labrador and fled before being grabbed by a cyclist. The Sun
Word-final b is rare, occurring mainly in monosyllables (hub, rib, scab), but occasionally in longer words (superb, disturb, cherub) Double B
That might have been disturbing enough for some of the residents if I hadn't been peppering the conversation with swear words every other syllable.
Damnably difficult to disturb the status quo. Times, Sunday Times
Select a release site that is an easily accessible, sunny location, not highly visible to vandals and others who may disturb the release area.
Moreover, a heuristic is proposed to simplify the computation of variable discount factor when the process disturbance follows MA(1).
It happens frequently and it's very disturbing.
But she has left it within the power of man irreparably to derange the combinations of inorganic matter and of organic life …. man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Marsh, George Perkins
(The observed precession is really 5270 ''/century, but a painstaking calculation to subtract the disturbances from all the other planets gives the value of 43 ''.) Forces
Dim as it was, it seemed to shift, wavering in a disturbingly qualmish fashion, and he shut his eyes, concentrating grimly on what he might do to Richard Brown, and he got the man alone someday. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
This week it snowed, which is a very rare occurance for December first time in 20 years, which caused some disturbance to my packing plan. Archive 2005-12-01
Have you ever thought how great it would be if someone took the ickiest aspects of monogamous lifestyle BDSM, blended it with a double measure of religious-right patriarchy, then added a generous sprinkling of disturbing domestic violence? Happy Slapping
The violence is remorseless and disturbing. Times, Sunday Times
Walking on will only disturb them again and again, and having no wish to chivvy them the length of the beach we detour along the track through the dunes, regaining the sands with the gulls behind us and miles of beach ahead. Country diary: South Uist
In fact, she rents an apartment so they can conduct their liaison without being disturbed.
The fastest disturbance dynamo effect in numerical simulation is apparent within an hour or two of onset of geomagnetic activity, which could become confused with apparent long-lived penetration on the nightside. More Evidence That Hurricanes Are The Result Of A Poisson Process « Climate Audit
That may be a reaction against greedy bankers but it is disturbing. Times, Sunday Times
When young people cause disturbances in public how often do us adults intervene? Times, Sunday Times
In the works of Bacon, Richier, de Kooning and Golub we see ugly and disturbed people.
His visit disturbed the even tenor of life in the areas of the City through which he passed.
Whole families disappeared and their homes remain undisturbed until an executor crosses the threshold to arrange a sale. Times, Sunday Times
An offender who takes part in a large-scale public disturbance cannot expect to be sentenced as if his actions had been committed in isolation. Times, Sunday Times
Disturbances can occur while a fish is at rest, when swimming forwards and backwards, and during maneuvers while moving in either direction.
Something must've disturbed them, or it wasn't worth the risk now they were considering cutlery and Swahili--English dictionaries. WHITE LIES
There were no reports of any crowd disturbances. Great Sporting Failures
The stacked wood, being undisturbed for the summer months, is a haunt of mice, and the stoat undulates over it, coming down headfirst like a nuthatch. Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland
Disgusting, munting girl's disgusting friend: DISTURBED! Drowned In Sound // Feed
I was deeply disturbed and depressed by the news.
But he thinks other pitcher plant processes — predator-prey interactions, mutually beneficial species, the effects of disturbance — are found across ecosystems.
He makes such a racket I'm afraid he disturbs the neighbours.
He was disturbed to find that she owned a sonic screwdriver. The Sun
Meanwhile, disturbing news arrives that our horses are depressed. Times, Sunday Times
I caught sight of them through binoculars as they were, interestingly, on the edge of the disturbed mound outside a sett. Country Diary: Strathnairn
Students were also required to have a special style of haircut, apparently so that they could be easily recognized in any civil disturbance.
Women who have a history of early-onset premenstrual mood disturbances and dysmenorrhea are more likely to experience an improvement in their premenstrual mood.
Each time, Macdonald was able to recover by pushing the thumbwheel switch to tilt the nacelles forward and put the rotors into undisturbed air. The Dream Machine
Local teenagers blamed the disturbances on boredom, and what they see as a total lack of things for them to do in the area.
Those of a delicate conscience may be offended by the movie, but the images it conjures in the mind are more disturbing than those depicted on screen.
A disturbed mental state will often result in an unhappy and ineffective athlete which alone usually indicates overtraining.
Rendered only somewhat individual by almost insignificant pencil numbers along the edges, the rows and columns form a visually disturbing base latticework.
Lately his slumber had been disturbed by dreams of yellow roses and pink heather, bachelor's-buttons and bitterroot and salmon poppies and moss rose and blue flax and red tulips and yellow water lilies.
According to Samuelson, Japan pioneered the new stagnation and the parallels are disturbing.
No one was hurt in a 6: 30 p. m. disturbance at the East Facility, she added.
Oh, no, said he, he [Lincoln] wont enter into the Slave States to disturb the institution of slavery, he is too prudent a man to do such a thing as that; he only means that he will go on to the line between the Free and Slave States, and shoot over at them. Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln
One ill-judged line can upset morale and disturb the team equilibrium. Times, Sunday Times
He was internally disturbed to hear of her illness.
Trying not to disturb the azaleas, she peeked in the dining room window.
Sin has much more weakened man's will than darkened his intellect, and the rebellion of the sensual appetite, which we call concupiscence, does indeed disturb the understanding, but still it is against the will that it principally stirs up sedition and revolt: so that the poor will, already quite infirm, being shaken with the continual assaults which concupiscence directs against it, cannot make so great progress in divine love as reason and natural inclination suggest to it that it should do. Treatise on the Love of God
White fir is used to revegetate disturbed forest sites where it naturally occurs. White fir
The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals.
When this was reported to the proprietor, he determined, if possible, to outroot this last remnant of disturbance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
The results, which must be disturbing to the various ruling elites, are all the more striking.
It is quite disturbing to note that two countries with such a close relationship since the time when General De Gaulle decided to open diplomatic ties with the People's Republic in 1964.
Such quantification will also be important to determine whether some populations are able to habituate to at least low level disturbance or whether individuals and local populations differ in the degree of tolerance of disturbance.
Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed. The Best Endings in Science Fiction
The patrol police on duty are on the alert against any possible disturbances.
The proposal to move the vans was to reduce disturbance to residents of the new Kiln Corner housing development.
Most disturbingly for friends and relatives, the disappearances have been seized upon by religious zealots in what they say is an attempt to have the men killed. Times, Sunday Times
The land is to be left undisturbed as a nature reserve.
Suddenly, and with appalling quickness the mastodonic brute reared itself on its mighty hind legs and elongated its neck and body in an effort to reach this vociferous pigmy whose clamor was disturbing the primeval silence of its horrible realm. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
Sitting there and throwing out a line, you can enjoy a peaceful day without being disturbed.
Prince Rose-Red talked without one second's intermission the whole time I was dressing him; and I allowed it, as papa and Una were not here to be disturbed by the clishmaclaver. Memories of Hawthorne

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