How To Use Ill at ease In A Sentence
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I remember a man ill at ease with his height and fearful that his profound musical abilities were undervalued.
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He seemed ill at ease and not his usual self.
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At 11 pm, Kirsty Wark, who had appeared ill at ease throughout the preceding half hour, disappeared from Scottish screens to be replaced by the hangdog features of Newsnight Scotland's Gordon Brewer.
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The boy was ill at ease in the presence of the headmaster.
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The world depicted is a fascinating one, and we gaze upon it with rapt attention, even as the disquieting mood of the film keeps us ill at ease.
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Suspects look ill at ease; the murder squad is full of tense, haggard men.
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Lilian, tall and slim and intellectual, seemed ill at ease among the debs and toffs.
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‘Clearly there are still people ill at ease with naturism who still have a lot of prejudices towards it,’ he says.
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Have him or her call you back; it is reasonable to feign a reason for an emergency exit if you are ill at ease.
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He is always ill at ease when facing his step-father.
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The three bleary-eyed women did not see the beauty in the brightening when they looked up at the sky and only felt ill at ease when they did.
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When one feels unsteady or when it might make a shorter partner feel ill at ease.
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He is always ill at ease when facing his step-father.
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He always felt shy and ill at ease at parties.
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Quite often, some of these amateur designers appear ill at ease when the time comes to appear on stage and be recognized for their efforts.
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When her publisher suggested a quotations book, initially she was ill at ease with the idea.
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Kaboul in particular seemed so ill at ease that he managed to win a solitary defensive header throughout the first half.
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On the eve of her wedding journey, she has a swanky supper with her father, a bank manager ill at ease with his daughter's high-flying tastes.
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Kaboul in particular seemed so ill at ease that he managed to win a solitary defensive header throughout the first half.
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One is smart but ill at ease; one is slatternly but gorgeous.
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This is inevitable, and a reader may be ill at ease at the scarcity of evidence that underlies many of these reconstructions.
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In person, he's friendly but ill at ease, a schlumpy professor in chinos and a beige button-down, who dislikes being interviewed, he says, owing to a few bad experiences with reporters.
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And all of this is inevitable, for Utopians are ill at ease at the sharp end of politics.
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Despite the smooth coil of her coiffure, the elegant lines of her lavender dress, she seemed ill at ease, preoccupied.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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On camera he appears twitchy and ill at ease.
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I felt ill at ease in such formal clothes.
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And I think this is one of the major things that makes people ill at ease and uncomfortable'.
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The boy was ill at ease in the presence of the headmaster.
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When one feels unsteady or when it might make a shorter partner feel ill at ease.
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Chopra had felt ill at ease since entering the strange domain.
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The dark elf seemed ill at ease among the buildings, and clung close to One Nine's shaggy thigh.
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With a sprinkling of new players still bedding in, they looked ill at ease in the face of a familiar, and formidable, United side.
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He always felt shy and ill at ease at parties.
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Kathy fidgeted beside him, studying her nails, ill at ease among these obvious geeks and losers.
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But he seemed ill at ease in Liszt's flamboyant Spanish Rhapsody, which in his hands wanted for inflection, contrast and affective intensity.
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Russians, for historical reasons, can be acutely ill at ease with the idea of expounding uncomfortable truths in a formal setting.
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She sips camomile tea, not ill at ease, but not relaxed either.
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He seemed ill at ease and not his usual self.
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With two children bedridden the mother was ill at ease.
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He appeared embarrassed and ill at ease with the sustained applause that greeted him.
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Despite the smooth coil of her coiffure, the elegant lines of her lavender dress, she seemed ill at ease, preoccupied.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Sit down, man, before you fall - vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis, * (* When the mind is ill at ease, the body is somewhat affected.) as Ovid would say if he could see you.
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In the 1980s and 1990s we were ill at ease and unable to get a hold on things as we faced a big black hole and a slow drift to oblivion.
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You always look ill at ease in a suit.
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He appeared embarrassed and ill at ease with the sustained applause that greeted him.
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ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know
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a very inhibited young man, anxious and ill at ease
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I felt ill at ease in such formal clothes.
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Bodmin," said he, "was plainly ill at ease: men gathered together in knots in the streets, and the like, with all manner of rumours and whisperings about; and if they were to go, go they must.
Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution
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He politely accepts a smaller room up a poky flight of stairs, where his tall frame seems ill at ease.
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