How To Use Disturbed In A Sentence

To equate Tim McVeigh as a patriot is the mark of a sick and disturbed mind. Think Progress » Fox News host Julie Banderas
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!

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.
She left strict instructions that she was not to be disturbed.
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.
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
The untitled volume lay undisturbed for more than 150 years and was found during a clear-out.
They managed to shift about half of the mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed patients to homes and less restrictive programs.
An owl hooted across the compound, and a paraquet disturbed by the outcry uttered a shrill, indignant protest. The Lamp in the Desert
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 you disturbed them the seeds of rose-bay willow-herbs lifted like air bubbles into the beam of light.
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.
A plump, fast running bird which keeps to the undergrowth, the black francolin only flies when disturbed.
Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
As a professional animal trainer, I was disturbed when my own dog developed a bad habit.
The communities are divided into three main categories: gorges, plateau uplands, and disturbed areas.
One contained an undisturbed ship burial, including many Anglo-Saxon artefacts of outstanding historical and archaeological significance. Times, Sunday Times
I held in my hand a single black candle, it's flame flickering as my body disturbed the air around it.
The father, especially in posh families, was largely absent or not to be disturbed. Girls Like Pink ...Fact
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.
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
Only his heavy breathing disturbed the quiet as an old friend walked to within two feet of him. Times, Sunday Times
But he was disturbed by her pet labrador and fled before being grabbed by a cyclist. The Sun
In fact, she rents an apartment so they can conduct their liaison without being disturbed.
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
Something must've disturbed them, or it wasn't worth the risk now they were considering cutlery and Swahili--English dictionaries. WHITE LIES
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.
He was disturbed to find that she owned a sonic screwdriver. The Sun
I caught sight of them through binoculars as they were, interestingly, on the edge of the disturbed mound outside a sett. Country Diary: Strathnairn
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
A disturbed mental state will often result in an unhappy and ineffective athlete which alone usually indicates overtraining.
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.
He was internally disturbed to hear of her illness.
White fir is used to revegetate disturbed forest sites where it naturally occurs. White fir
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 land is to be left undisturbed as a nature reserve.
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
Reports submitted by two psychologists told of bouts of depression and a history of disturbed behaviour.
Residents near the play area are being disturbed by noise, and beer cans have been left about the area.
Their somewhat placid life is disturbed when an old friend comes to stay.
Their ideal habitat is in long grass or scrubland (semi-arid heath) where they make pathways or runways for feeding and escape if disturbed.
She was in a disturbed state of mind.
Many voters admitted being disturbed by the tenor of the election campaign.
I think the other thing is that if he ` s as disturbed as he seems to be, if he ` s a sociopath, often these guys are highly sexualized, and so they do engage in unusual sexual activities to kind of heighten their excitement in life. CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2006
That followed a complaint by the trust but he was never prosecuted and has continued to fish and farm the clams largely undisturbed.
His bare feet disturbed the red dust of the path down to the granite-basined river, and tiny clouds puffed out on each side of the way at every footfall. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
The boy disturbed the tranquil surface of the pond with a stick.
Provided the material is hidden away and undisturbed, it presents no danger whatsoever.
The untitled volume lay undisturbed for more than 150 years and was found during a clear-out.
One time I come across one of numerous hawksbill turtles feeding undisturbed on the reef.
But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
For the conservation of Himalayan monal and its associated species, it would be important to set aside large undisturbed areas of high altitude oak-rhododendron forests.
With my first step, I sank up to my waist and got a good whiff of the gym-bag-from-hell odor that any marsh emits in summertime when disturbed. A Sportman's Life: A Sinking Feeling
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen
He wasn't the least bit perturbed by the meager audience, nor was he disturbed by the obvious pastoral snub.
During the construction process, Forrest estimated they disturbed another 70 acres that had to be revegetated to its original pristine condition.
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
Really, the hennish outline is quite striking, although I'm disturbed by the missing legs and feet. The End of Sweetness
The boy disturbed the tranquil surface of the pond with a stick.
But Johnson was clearly disturbed by what he characterized as "mob rule and thuggery. Sen. Ron Johnson denounces 'mob rule'
He was disturbed to find that she owned a sonic screwdriver. The Sun
In fundamental contrast with those saws which assume that sleep is disturbed by dreams, we hold the _dream as the guardian of sleep_. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners
It does best in disturbed forest patches with large amounts of edge or open canopy.
We had been disturbed, but the rest of our stay was almost faultless. Times, Sunday Times
Why is it that so many people today are never disturbed or upset at worship (except, of course, when the acolyte does acrobatics, the liturgy runs long, or the kids are cranky and crying)?
At the end of the wall we inadvertently disturbed a hawksbill turtle resting among the fronds of a soft coral.
Disturbed by Lewis's examination of her newborn, the heifer mooed unhappily.
Sleep may be another intervention domain to target, especially since disturbed sleep can negatively impact distress levels.
Many children have become emotionally disturbed as a result of the abuse they have suffered.
This, then, is what Tom Friedman — in antiseptic language designed to leave elite consciences undisturbed — would like to portray as successful American policy: Using the Iraqi people as bait to attract jihadists from around the region and distract them from attacking the American homeland. Wonk Room » Friedman: America Successfully Used Iraqis As Bait
So, for instance, fissures in the underlying bedrock or a man-made trench or pit will often fill with soils and matter that have greater moisture retention and more nutrients than the surrounding, undisturbed subsoil.
Within seconds, the few whirling ripples had smoothed back into an undisturbed mirror surface, reflecting the dark blue of the fading evening sky.
The primordial ocean provided an ideal medium for their formation, for the primordial ocean was large, and water can hold the coacervates suspended for a long period of time without being disturbed.
If disturbed or cornered, the snake will defend itself.
It disturbed the agenda, and patients seemed to be distracted from the subject that made them seek health care in the first place.
He made a grunting sound, shaking his head for a moment like a disturbed mental patient.
One way to tackle these is to recall the words of musicians who were disturbed by unitary control.
Dr. Alexander Sartorius, psychiatrist at the CIMH, added: "We decided to stimulate the habenula because it is involved is the control of three major neurotransmitter systems, which are known to be disturbed in depression '". Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Mrs Edwards gave instructions that she was not to be disturbed.
If the second tablet is taken too close to bedtime, it may cause disturbed sleep.
Their motion through the bushes often disturbed clouds of yellow butterflies, which had been hanging on the fringes of the tall purple asters, and which rose toying with each other, and fluttering in ethereal dances against the blue sky, looking like whirls and eddies of air-flowers. Oldtown Folks
In Puerto Rico, white siris is an aggressive pioneer, forming pure stands on abandoned farms and other disturbed sites It is also common in pastures at elevations below 600 meters, including areas receiving as little as 800 mm of annual rainfall. Chapter 37
No bird of prey hovered overhead, not even the dragonflies disturbed the oily surface of the pond.
The farm sheds and the bathhouse were undisturbed.
Doctors say that apart from disturbed sleep patterns there is no evidence of long-term damage. Times, Sunday Times
If, however, the number of observations is large for the size of the disturbed area, the construction of coseismal lines may define approximately the position of the epicentre. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
Sleepy days in leafy suburbs are disturbed by huge removal lorries that swallow up entire households as transient diplomats, businessmen and journalists leave for postings new.
These are not just marine farmers, but boaties, recreational fisher people, and people who go to live in areas like the Marlborough Sounds for the natural beauty of the place and simply do not like to have their view disturbed.
This mythic territory, once navigated by Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, hosts a journey to declining river towns, tiny evangelical churches, and seedy whorehouses populated by disturbed and disturbing characters.
Things have been disturbed by mice nesting...' Lucy takes a deep breath. SEA MUSIC
The household is mad, disturbed, yet idyllic and peaceful.
If you are deeply disturbed by the sinister implications, both corporate and gustatory, imagine my shock as I reeled out of the supermarket, my mind awhirl with the grisliest of possibilities, only to come upon this terrible scene at the docks, mere minutes away (click to enlarge): The Cannibals of Galway
It disturbed me in my comfort spots, comforted me in my disturbed spots, and, as an erstwhile writer of fiction, I was simultaneously enraptured by her facility with words and timing; and nearly unconsolable and jealous and angry with myself for not working harder at it than I do. Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock
The President cannot be disturbed," his son is supposed to have told an early morning caller.
"We are deeply disturbed to learn from our government that this British company was working with Iran.
His wife's death disturbed the balance of his mind.
All the physical and chemical laws that are known to play an important part in the life of organisms are of this statistical kind; any other kind of lawfulness and orderliness that one might think of is being perpetually disturbed and made inoperative by the unceasing heat motion of the atoms., reply Harvard Posts The Wolfram Alpha Preview Video — Without A Single Shot Of The Service
I could tell from the deep furrows in her forehead that she was very disturbed by the news.
Color vision can be disturbed; chromatopsia is most common for yellow and green but less frequently red, brown and blue vision can occur.
Part of that believability is also that Batman is disturbed. Archive 2008-07-01
Hidden treasure sitting undisturbed for four centuries, which divers risk their lives to recover. Times, Sunday Times
Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him, she was at the same time terrified.
Emily didn't move, she was physically exhausted; she couldn't even moan in her sleep at being disturbed.
He must have disturbed your privacy.
We hope the future will be one of plentiful, continuous, and widespread resources and undisturbed roosts for the welfare of our shared bat species, ecosystems, and ecological processes.
Let it cook, undisturbed - you should notice bubbles appearing on the surface and when it looks to be drying out, flip the pikelet over to finish cooking. Sugar High Friday #32
The trunks are undisturbed, full of my film reels, video tapes, scripts and potpourri of neglected promotional materials.
Rosemary had never done much thinking, save about the illimitability of her mother’s perfections, so this final severance of the umbilical cord disturbed her sleep. Tender is the Night
There was a new found concentration and direction in his voice which she understood but which also frightened and disturbed her.
* And my vote for best news story of this or any year: Tiny Swiss watch found in undisturbed 400-year-old tomb. Quick Ones « Gerry Canavan
They stay like this for who knows how long, exchanging kisses and enjoying each other's touch, until they're disturbed by the horse nudging his nose in between them.
It is a widespread phenomenon that takes place at different scales: the large mass of soil brought up among the exposed roots of a wind-toppled oak tree and the few-millimeter thick sediment layer disturbed along the trail of a tiny aquatic snail are both examples of bioturbation. Archive 2007-01-01
The animals were restless, disturbed by the smell of fire permeating the building.
When his friends call at the house, she says he is sleeping, or in the bathroom, or cannot be disturbed.
Occasionally he put up a hand to satisfy himself hair remained undisturbed.
Of course, I read the book on my iPad -- in an otherwise pitch-dark room, while my wife snoozed away undisturbed. Dr. Philip Neches: iPad in the Dark
Her sleep is disturbed with coughing and she has earache.
Buckingham Palace is thought to have booked all dozen seats in the rear first-class compartment to ensure that the couple were undisturbed. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile G120 is facing the wrong way and H 131 is in very disturbed wind behind the whole fleet.
lamblike" temper which is fulfilled in quiescence and disturbed by thought. Robert Browning
In the Balearics pockets of rural life and inland villages are undisturbed.
It was utterly, silent, too - no bird calls or insect chirrups disturbed the sandy desert.
EACH year, 30 per cent of us will have a spell of disturbed sleep. The Sun
On the other hand, I was rather disturbed at the large number of thongs and g-strings that I was selling.
The contents of the coat, which had lain undisturbed for approximately eight months, are currently in the process of being catalogued and analyzed, but early reports already have the scientific community buzzing.
Disturbed by his superior's methods, Mathieu sees potential in the imps and forms a school choir.
`Part jaguar, part condor, part snake, he sank his fangs into whoever disturbed the dead. INCA GOLD
I was disturbed that 2 office blocks and a block of flats have sprung up on what were empty spaces in a nearby town since I last went past a month ago.
‘You will observe,’ wrote Jawaharlal Nehru archly to a Cabinet colleague, ‘that we have disturbed the hornet's nest and I believe most of us are likely to be badly stung.’
When Pharaoh had his dream, the dream disturbed him. Christianity Today
Alerted by the commotion the burglar was disturbed and chased by pub regulars but he got away.
Hidden treasure sitting undisturbed for four centuries, which divers risk their lives to recover. Times, Sunday Times
After several of the local townsfolk turn up dead, all eyes fall upon this disturbed and destructive kid.
At last I was able to work undisturbed.
Cherry blossoms floated by on the breeze and looking up into the sky was like plunging towards an undisturbed pool of tropical water.
They often feed in flocks, and when they are disturbed they go chattering away delightfully in a dark cloud across the sky. Times, Sunday Times
The highlight of the garden party was that an angry swarm of bees, whose beehive had been disturbed by accident, swooped down on the assembled guests.
lapsed into disturbed sleep
She was not a typical middle-class girl in expensive clothes who idolized masculine negritude, but an ill-nourished, disturbed young woman who would have gone "for anyone sexy who offered her a cult, even if he'd been as white as milk. The Lessons of the Master
The killer had a disturbed family background.
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. Woody Allen
Like many of his colleagues he was increasingly disturbed by certain developments, in particular the setting-up of the Workers ' Militia. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
The water in a pond is at equilibrium when the surface is undisturbed. Optics basics: What is a wave? Part I (updated) « Skulls in the Stars
I said to myself at once that the block of stone disturbed by the pickaxe had been placed there with a very curious exactness, that the least knock was bound to make it fall and that, in falling, it must inevitably reduce the head of the false Arsene Lupin to pulp, in such a way as to make it utterly irrecognizable. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin
Buckingham Palace is thought to have booked all dozen seats in the rear first-class compartment to ensure that the couple were undisturbed. Times, Sunday Times
Irritable bowel syndrome is characterized by recurrent episodes of abdominal pain and discomfort and disturbed bowel habits.
At one point I sat for about five minutes, totally undisturbed in the small 1000 seat theatre.
Regular patterns of disturbed soil as well as the minefield markers and fences may all give an indication of recent activity.
The dark bluish liquid was not disturbed for the last several hours.
The “horror of great darkness” is disturbed by voices and illumed by sights. Uncle Silas
In mental health areas this has largely been the more articulate and less seriously disturbed group of sufferers.
Some of the women are mentally disturbed.
And to prove my commitment to the environment, let me just say this: No woodchucks were actually disturbed in the process of writing this column.
The judgment could lead to the release of dozens of mentally disturbed offenders from high-security hospitals.
Snowdrops hate having their roots disturbed, but dividing them in spring allows their roots to recover and gives the leaves time to feed the bulb before they become dormant later in summer.
The grass beside the well, buoyantly undisturbed, leads to an analogy with sedge which is growing near the sea on much shakier ground. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson
The degradation of the substantial vegetative covering has caused migration to markhor and wild goat that has disturbed the food chain for the elusive snow leopard forcing him to migrate to some other habitats. Climate Vigil Rally Chitral, Pakistan
Several of the sleeping men stirred in their sleep as the chill disturbed their slumber.
S----, a comfortable place very slightly disturbed by the fact that it had been already the scene of four battles; there was just this effect, as it seemed to me, that the affairs of the day were carried on with a kind of somnolent indifference .... The Dark Forest
Losses occur, however, when the unattended eggs are taken by crows or ravens, or when nesting birds are disturbed by humans.
How does she continue to live with her father and go along with undisturbed blitheness in the face of her older sister's accusations?
Write half a dozen folios full of other people's ideas (as all folios are pretty sure to be), and you serve as ballast to the lower shelves of a library, about as like to be disturbed as the kentledge in the hold of a ship. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Polly went out through the back of fice to retrieve her car and drive home, which I understood was a house in a wood outside the town, and my father and I, bolting everything securely, climbed the steep little staircase and slept utldisturbed until Saturday mortling. Penalty
It was not a very awful weapon that Miss La Creevy held, it being in fact nothing more nor less than a black – lead pencil; but discovering her mistake, the little portrait painter exchanged it for a mother – of – pearl fruit knife, wherewith, in proof of her desperate thoughts, she made a lunge as she spoke, which would have scarcely disturbed the crumb of a half – quartern loaf. Nicholas Nickleby
He was brought up to believe in God and he has never felt with poignant sympathy enough the abysmal, immedicable woes of human-kind to have his faith disturbed. Christianity and Progress
The most vulnerable detainees, particularly the young, become severely disturbed, depressed and suicidal.
By not allowing Anthony Mascheck undisturbed sharing of his point of view as a former military man, the group demonstrated their disinterest in engaging in a mannerly debate and exposed their true desire to provoke and instigate. Marco Reininger: ROTC at Columbia University: Regarding the Heckling of a Veteran
He is responsible for managing and responding to all the distractions and context switching scenarios which would otherwise have disturbed the whole team.
The many private ranches that have opened for safaris are a direct response to the demand for undisturbed game viewing.
Learning is also disturbed when sulphur dioxide is released, sometimes windows have to be closed. Times, Sunday Times
Whether he disturbed the sweet influences of the honey-moon by his intrusive presence, or permitted that nectareous satellite to fill her horns and wax and wane in peace before he sought to bring the bridegroom down to the things of earth, are questions which I must leave to the discretion of my readers to settle, each for himself or herself, according to their own notions of the proprieties of the case. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
She did not like the plan at all; not that the thought of Lantier living under their roof disturbed her, but she had no idea where she could put the linen as it came in to be washed and again when it was rough-dry. L'Assommoir
And, of course, if there's one thing worse than being disturbed by neighbour noise, it's being disturbed by neighbour noise and then being told you don't have neighbours, which is what happens to poor Cristina Raines in The Sentinel, a Michael Winner film that looks battier with each passing year. Why aren't more slasher movies set in blocks of flats?
Moussaoui is clearly mentally disturbed and his being unbalanced led to his arrest.
The play of chances which brings up a ternion or a quaternion is nothing compared to what has been required to prevent the combination of which I am reaping the fruits from being disturbed. Recollections of My Youth
What time do you usually wake up? or that somebody or something has disturbed your sleep:The children woke me up.
This child is clearly very disturbed emotionally and may require long-term therapy.

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