How To Use Uneasily In A Sentence
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In cities in India, as well as in Brazil and other deeply divided countries, quite luxurious enclaves coexist uneasily with slum and ghettos.
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Especially if the city is older than time, built on the slopes of an uneasily slumbering volcano, atop murmuring catacombs, and the eldritch ruins where men fear to tread loom over the unclimbed and unclimbable far side of the volcano, and strange musics or shrieks of nonhuman laughter ring across the ashy slopes when the moon is dark, or, in the case of Mars, moons.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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He stood there like something carved, then reached up and pulled his hat off and ran his fingers through his hair, shifting his weight uneasily, like a stag scenting danger.
Wild Blood
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Charles' concern for the environment sits uneasily with his collection of powerful cars.
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The center panel, executed in grisaille, shows the dog of the title - a pointer - walking down a flight of stairs somewhat uneasily, as dogs tend to do.
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The range of provision was described as fragmentary, disjointed, and uneasily reliant on unpredictable, inadequate, or short-term funding streams.
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She supposed he meant he was guilty for having thrown her life into disarray with his confession, and yet the word sat uneasily.
The Forgotten Garden
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One thing sure," continued the farmer, a little uneasily, "that fire must have been caused by what they call spontaneous combustion; or else somebody set it on purpose.
Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps
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My stomach gurgled uneasily and I felt my face flush green.
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But a bird that has a proven disruptive influence on wild grouse exists uneasily with raising large bags of grouse for sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, this proposition sits uneasily with the principle of subsidiarity, and does not take into account the fact that national policies might pursue different goals from that of the Community.
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Heavily influenced by the traditional contadino culture passed on from their parents, the second generation uneasily straddled two worlds.
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Through all the variations in style and genre which this exhibition amply documents, he remains absorbed by the idea that a setting can become a kind of vesture, the vesture project an image, and the image tally uneasily with the human being to whom it is attached.
Culture
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It was discovered on the blank space of a bit of newspaper, and looked much as if a fat lobworm had plunged himself into a bowl of ink, and in his literary delirium had twisted uneasily to the verge of the paper.
Rhoda Fleming — Volume 5
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She shifted uneasily beside him, and looked up the road again as he came trotting back astride his dun mare; he shook his head long before he reached them, and dismounted a few paces off.
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The new homes sit uneasily just blocks from row upon row of abandoned houses and garbage-strewn vacant lots.
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And wonder uneasily what it was about her that made you suspect her of being a hairy-legged, humourless old minger who wears dungarees and couldn't get a bloke if her life depended on it.
I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore
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Sam Fermoyle sank uneasily into the leather chair beside the mahogany desk.
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Womble stirred uneasily, feeling for the other the hatred one is prone to feel for one he has wronged.
A DAY'S LODGING
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I was wakened, after having slept uneasily for some hours, by some person shaking me rudely by the shoulder; a small lamp burned in my room, and by its light, to my horror and amazement, I discovered that my visitant was the self-same blind old lady who had so terrified me a few weeks before.
The Purcell Papers
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Behind the glass all of London turned over uneasily in the dark hours before dawn, and angels took to wing in St John's Wood and Blackfriars as somewhere a whitethroat began to sing.
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When we arrived at the gate, we found several armed guards there, looking uneasily at our pack of escorts.
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Harvey Keitel plays Charlie, the wiseguy dandy, a Catholic uneasily preoccupied by eternal damnation, but employed as a novice enforcer by his Uncle, a capo from the old country.
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And the boom, which had been acting uneasily, finally decided to gybe, and swept majestically over, carrying two of the Four in front of it, and all but dropped them into the water.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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They traversed a long, dark, vaulted corridor in which, Conan noticed uneasily, the skull on the staff glowed phosphorescently.
The Bloody Crown Of Conan
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He was shifting about uneasily in his chair.
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Many within the game are sleeping uneasily right now.
Times, Sunday Times
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I shifted uneasily under his gaze.
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The fellow scratched at a pockmarked nose and coughed, eyeing the mare uneasily.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
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Magda glanced uneasily at the size of the small windows to gauge the danger of intrusion.
PAINT THE WIND
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His exalted view of the state sits uneasily with the prosaic materialism and spiritual void of our own culture, especially when our society tends to identify the state with politics.
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He laughed uneasily as he explained the methodology.
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He glanced uneasily at Catherine's tightly clenched fist.
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The feudal origins of modern land law include rights and obligations that rest uneasily within 21st-century concepts of human rights.
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But a bird that has a proven disruptive influence on wild grouse exists uneasily with raising large bags of grouse for sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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His beliefs often clashed uneasily with his role as an employer of labour.
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Both sides were riding at anchor just a few hundred yards apart, watching each other uneasily.
The Sun
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Ilmari was uneasily examining the as yet untasted fish he had ordered, almost as if he expected it to rear up and make some accusation.
TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
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Pakistan is an artificial puzzle piece that, unlike India, has no logical frontiers, so different, territorially based ethnic groups exist uneasily together.
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He stood around uneasily, obviously not wanting to go back to his game of solitaire while I was still in the room.
THE EXECUTION
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She walked uneasily across the rocky coastline as if it had been her who had downed that crate load of wine, and continued to fall at regular intervals, further grazing her skin and tearing her dress.
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But a bird that has a proven disruptive influence on wild grouse exists uneasily with raising large bags of grouse for sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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She shifted uneasily from one foot to the other.
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At first, her motions were subtle enough to go unfelt, but after a while, as her boredom steadily increased, Mark started stirring uneasily in his sleep.
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She was dancing to his tune a little too, and she was uneasily aware of it.
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I wondered uneasily if the brakes were power assisted or not.
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The defendant twisted uneasily in his chair.
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He was sitting on a log; he sniffed the air and kept glancing uneasily round the wood.
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
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Meg shifted uneasily on her chair.
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Whether the vixen sensed my presence or perhaps it was simply time to move on, after a couple of minutes she moved closer to her cubs, looking around uneasily.
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Riley cleared his throat and shuffled uneasily on his feet.
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A few of the customers look up uneasily from their menus.
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I shifted uneasily under his gaze.
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He broke off to kick one of the mules on the haunch as it stamped uneasily towards the side.
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By way of reply, Dempsey looked away from him, his head bobbing uneasily on his neck.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Shops stayed shuttered and crowds stood uneasily on street corners as they waited for news.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pakistan is an artificial puzzle piece that, unlike India, has no logical frontiers, so different, territorially based ethnic groups exist uneasily together.
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Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of.
Watershed
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Even the horse grunted uneasily at her cold tone.
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Also, his quasi-anarchist political views coexisted uneasily with his conservative traditionalist leanings.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most
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She wondered uneasily if the group included a Judas.
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It wasn't until he'd resumed his human form again that he wondered uneasily how there could be so much meat on Dan-delo's bony old nag and why it had been so soft and warm, so full of uncoagulated blood.
The Dark Tower
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She blinked back sudden unexpected tears and twisted round uneasily.
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Several men grumbled loudly about this, and shifted uneasily about the room.
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Many within the game are sleeping uneasily right now.
Times, Sunday Times
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The marble clock on the mantel-piece softly chimed the half-hour, the dog rose uneasily from the hearthrug and looked at the party at the breakfast table.
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He stood around uneasily, obviously not wanting to go back to his game of solitaire while I was still in the room.
THE EXECUTION
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What begins so promisingly as a satire or perhaps even comic romp leaves an uneasily nasty after-taste.
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Now, over 30 years later, some of the people I remember as uneasily inactive (or were they inactively uneasy?) will tell you how they opposed the war.
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When mom gets jailed indefinitely for drugs, the uncle and kid, forced to be roomies, adjust uneasily to each other's lifestyle, come to understand one another, and finally become inseparable.
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She was actually in the combat zone now and she noted uneasily that once again she was placed firmly beside the count.
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It's a language that offers a safety valve against a discourse that oscillates uneasily between a strangulated avoidance of reality and an ugly violence.
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He was sitting on a log; he sniffed the air and kept glancing uneasily round the wood.
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
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Barbara sat in tears, for the justice was giving her a "piece of his mind," and poor Mrs. Hare deferently agreeing with her husband, as she would have done had he proposed to set the house on fire and burn her up in it, yet sympathizing with Barbara, moved uneasily in her chair.
East Lynne
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They looked unsure and shifted uneasily from foot to foot.
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She recalled the chummy laugh she and Gilbert had had together over it, and wondered uneasily if life with a man who had no sense of humor might not be somewhat uninteresting in the long run.
Anne of the Island
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Its theatre run was uneasily slotted between Lady Windermere's Fan and The Second Mrs Tanqueray.
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Farwell's logic sits uneasily with the fact that confirmation, and the catechesis that goes with it, are no longer viewed as conditions for participating in the Eucharist.
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Now, it in a stage-coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric: the intruder has at least made a sensation.
The Caxtons — Complete
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His wild eyes were watching the boys and his feet shuffled uneasily.
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This, I am afraid, sits uneasily with the party’s demand for a referendum on the EU Constitution and by facing in diametrically opposite directions on the two referenda opens the party to a charge of hypocrisy.
Archive 2007-11-25
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And he looked on her hard, and the colour came into her cheeks, and she laughed uneasily, as a dainty lady when she heareth some unmeet tale.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Map in hand, I dander, uneasily, towards my hotel.
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In another scene, bright light glints off the visors of scores of young-looking cops in full riot regalia shifting uneasily in the sun, as a dull rumble grows from somewhere offscreen.
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Squashed uneasily between Russia and the smug democracies of Western Europe, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary all want to join NATO. One school of thought in the administration, led by Lynn Davis, under secretary of state for international-security affairs, pressed what one European diplomat calls a "maximalist" approach.
'Don't Gloat' Wins The Day
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She looked more closely at the man as she pushed a lock of short, chocolate-colored hair behind one ear uneasily.
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But a bird that has a proven disruptive influence on wild grouse exists uneasily with raising large bags of grouse for sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a rather long time he returns and poses uneasily for his photograph.
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We are becoming the family patriarchs and matriarchs and the mantle sits uneasily on our shoulders.
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We glanced uneasily at the other naked bodies puled about us, then shuffled quickly into our clothes, eyes carefully averted.
The Unusual Genitals Party
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Now, it in a stage-coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re - arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric: the intruder has at least made a sensation.
The Caxtons — Volume 09
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Yet a leftish middle-class hegemony is far from the whole story; the area has always had a strong working-class presence that has uneasily coexisted alongside its louder and newsier monied neighbours.
The London comprehensive that's schooled Labour's elite
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Not wanting to be completely outdone, the men hurried uneasily after her and crowded into the cramped space of the dank cave.
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He stood around uneasily, obviously not wanting to go back to his game of solitaire while I was still in the room.
THE EXECUTION
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She smiled uneasily at her friend who looked very much as though she cared not a jot for her record.
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We spectated as the traffic merged uneasily and shifted itself past the complex intersection at midday.
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Barbara sat in tears, for the justice was giving her "a piece of his mind;" and poor Mrs. Hare, deferently agreeing with her husband, as she would have done had he proposed to set the house on fire, and burn her up in it, yet sympathizing with Barbara, moved uneasily in her chair.
East Lynne, or, The Earl's Daughter
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Americans today crave the confidence, certainty and reckless aplomb he exuded but are at the same time uneasily aware that his approach would be inappropriate now.
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The cat crouched uneasily in her arms, then uttered a curious low cry and struggled free.
