PERTURB in a Sentence

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35 example sentences for PERTURB, such as:

1. His spirit was perturbed to aching.
2. I was perturbed by his lack of interest.
3. News of the arrest perturbed her greatly.
4. She is very perturbed about her husband's health.
5. He was greatly perturbed, and now I shall have to upset him more than ever.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERTURB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perturb
 v.  disturb greatly; make uneasy or anxious; throw into great confusion
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  But Bazarov's jeers did not in the least perturb Vassily Ivanovitch; they were positively a comfort to him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  It was not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out there in which he had now no part could perturb him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX
3  I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
4  Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy's running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatsby's party.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
5  Alexey Alexandrovitch was, however, so perturbed that he did not immediately comprehend all the good sense of adultery by mutual consent, and his eyes expressed this uncertainty; but the lawyer promptly came to his assistance.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
6  Mihailov was greatly perturbed, but he could say nothing in defense of his own idea.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 11
7  His spirit was perturbed to aching.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
8  He was somewhat perturbed, and his manner of informing Thomasin that he was going on a journey was in itself sufficient to rouse her suspicions.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
9  The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
10  It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
11  He was greatly perturbed, and now I shall have to upset him more than ever.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  The count was more perturbed than ever by the condition of his affairs, which called for some decisive action.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XIII
13  The question that had perturbed Pierre on the Mozhaysk hill and all that day now seemed to him quite clear and completely solved.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV
14  The faces of those who were not conferring together were pale and perturbed.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
15  "I'm very sorry to hear of this, Miss March," he said, in the kind, quiet tone which sounded very pleasantly to her perturbed spirit.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Example Sentence:
1  The thought that electricity might be leaking out of the empty light bulb sockets might perturb my aunt.
2  She is very perturbed about her husband's health.
3  I was perturbed by his lack of interest.
4  News of the arrest perturbed her greatly.