Disturbs
[di'stə:bz]
Examples
- The labour of the thought disturbs the regular progress of the sentiments, as we shall observe presently. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The antenna has electrical capacity, and when it is connected with the other apparatus needful to produce the oscillations it disturbs the earth’s magnetic field. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- So nervous as I am, the least breath disturbs me; and a strange hand about me would drive me absolutely frantic. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He felt what many a manufacturer feels when somebody has the impertinence to invent a process which disturbs the routine of business. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It seems so now because we put our faith in the ideal arrangements which it disturbs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It disturbs me, Clym, to find that you have come home with such thoughts as those. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We call this stir towards a new order, this refusal to drift on in the old directions, unrest, but rather is it hope which disturbs the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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