Wondering how to use Unnerve in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as faze or unsettle.
Unnerve meaning
- To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate.
- To make somebody nervous, upset, alarm, shake the resolve of.
Using Unnerve
- The main meaning on this page is: To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. Compare enervate. | To make somebody nervous, upset, alarm, shake the resolve of.
- Useful related words include: faze, enervate, unsettle, upset.
- In the example corpus, unnerve often appears in combinations such as: to unnerve, and unnerve, unnerve the.
Context around Unnerve
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unnerve
- In this selection, "unnerve" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stops, beijing and investors stand out and add context to how "unnerve" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agitate and unnerve the sport and calyrex s unnerve stops the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unnerve" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unnerve
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That should unnerve every other team in the NFC North. (10 words)
Every year nothing seems to agitate and unnerve the sport like tampering with them. (14 words)
In Chinese bombers encircled the island republic as part of another military drill designed to unnerve Taipei. (17 words)
True, no one will be there to laugh at Mr. Biden’s jokes, but it doesn’t matter because the goal is serious: to expose the truth and unnerve Mr. Trump by getting under his skin. (36 words)
I worry in particular about the politics of Medicare for All, not because of the cost but because proposing the abolition of private insurance could unnerve tens of millions of middle-class voters. (33 words)
The darkening employment picture has boosted the likelihood of a 50-bps cut, but such a deep cut could send a signal that the economy is in deep trouble and unnerve investors. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
Calyrex's Unnerve stops the opponent from eating crucial Berries, while Spectrier's Grim Neigh boosts its Special Attack every time it gets a KO.
In violation of its own stated policy, however, Washington has long courted Taipei, and its secessionist president Tsai Ing-wen, in part to unnerve Beijing.
For her part, Harris is looking for her own ways to unnerve Trump and just maybe get that social media moment anyway.
Humor is subjective, of course, but the resulting jokes probably won’t unnerve any stand-up comedians worried AI is coming for their job.
The darkening employment picture has boosted the likelihood of a 50-bps cut, but such a deep cut could send a signal that the economy is in deep trouble and unnerve investors.
Trump has historically thrived on using insults and aggressive tactics to unnerve his opponents, but Harris refused to engage on his terms.
That should unnerve every other team in the NFC North.
True, no one will be there to laugh at Mr. Biden’s jokes, but it doesn’t matter because the goal is serious: to expose the truth and unnerve Mr. Trump by getting under his skin.
And to add insult to injury, the shelling was deliberately directed to unnerve the U.S. forces still in the city.
I worry in particular about the politics of Medicare for All, not because of the cost but because proposing the abolition of private insurance could unnerve tens of millions of middle-class voters.
Every year nothing seems to agitate and unnerve the sport like tampering with them.
In Chinese bombers encircled the island republic as part of another military drill designed to unnerve Taipei.
Common combinations with unnerve
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to unnerve 5×
- and unnerve 3×
- unnerve the 2×