DISTURB in a Sentence

Learn DISTURB from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
253 example sentences for DISTURB, such as:
1. The disturbances seem to occur in waves.
2. Sorry to disturb you , but I have an urgent message.
3. If you get up early, try not to disturb everyone else.
4. The Richter scale is a measurement of seismic disturbances.
5. There were disturbances in the crowd as fans left the stadium.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DISTURB
disturb
 v.  damage as if by shaking or jarring
 v.  tamper with
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The noise of the rain did not disturb him much; but it attracted his attention sufficiently to make him raise his head sometimes, as if he were rather remonstrating with the elements.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
2  As the matter is, disturb not the peaceful hall with vaunts of the issue of the conflict, which you well know cannot take place.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  And I pray you, good Christian brother," replied the anchorite, "to disturb me no more.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  But now she could arrange that Mrs Bolton should come at ten to disturb them.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  But since you think it interferes with you, I won't disturb you, don't be afraid.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
6  She woke up greyly, and watched, but without making a sound to disturb Sir Clifford.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  The surgeon shook his head, in a manner which intimated that he feared it was very possible; and observing that they might disturb the patient, led the way into an adjoining apartment.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain ephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the majestic calm of Egdon Heath.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
9  I thought it might disturb you in your business, and that you might throw up your situation, or injure your prospects in some way because of it, so I said nothing.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
10  To argue upon the possibility of culture before luxury to the bucolic world may be to argue truly, but it is an attempt to disturb a sequence to which humanity has been long accustomed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
11  Yeobright was unwilling to disturb this idea, though his scheme was far enough removed from one wherein the education of youth should be made a mere channel of social ascent.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
12  The doubtful legitimacy of such rough coercion did not disturb the mind of Venn.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
13  "You may go in; you will not disturb him," she said, following behind.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
14  Her grandfather concluded from what he saw that he ought not to disturb her; and descending again to the parlour he placed the letter on the mantelpiece to give it to her in the morning.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
15  I kept all the keys and could go where I liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in his privacy.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  He has vowed to challenge government warnings not to disturb the country's stability and continue his political work.
2  Even the inevitable strains of caring for an ailing mother did not disturb Bea's equanimity.
3  The king said it was all the more homely and more pleasant for these fixings, and so don't disturb them.
4  The minister was concerned that nothing should disturb the solemnity of the marriage service.
5  If you get up early, try not to disturb everyone else.
6  Tourists often disturb the delicate balance of nature on the island.
7  Sorry to disturb you , but I have an urgent message.
8  An imbalance in certain chemicals leads to disturbances in the brain's function.
9  There were disturbances in the crowd as fans left the stadium.
10  The disturbances seem to occur in waves.
11  The Richter scale is a measurement of seismic disturbances.
12  The Socialist leader pledged to do all in his power to stamp out unrest two straight days of disturbances in which after 17 police were injured, some by shotgun pellets.
13  Buildings should create minimum disturbance to the environment.
14  During the disturbance which followed, three Englishmen were hurt.
15  It's impossible to localize the effect of this political disturbance.