unsteady
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2026
So why haven’t these headlines done more to calm an unsteady global oil market?
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
Watson had appeared unsteady in the aftermath of the collision, failing in an initial attempt to stand from a kneeling position.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
In Guillermo Cienfuegos’ enlivening, if at times unsteady, production at A Noise Within, the role is played by Ann Noble, who forgoes the outdated hunchback but adopts a seething, slithering, perversely seductive aura of menace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
But it was beginning to tilt and wobble, its gleaming faces oblong and unsteady.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
The challenge will be not getting unsteadied by meticulously curated opposing pitching plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
I breathed out, took my foot off the gas, and the car quivered, unsteadied.
From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2016
At the same time, he knows what it’s like to be unsteadied by professional disappointment – and, worse, to be toppled, outright, by personal tragedy.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2015
The room seems unsteadied by von Storch's ambition.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2010
And then she turned upon West a face so luminous with pure trust that it all but unsteadied him.
From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
Volckmer has said the subheading was kept off the cover “as a surprise” – making it the first of many unsteadying gear shifts in a monologue that sets out to unsettle.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2020
It is deeply unsteadying to ponder the possibility that Riefenstahl might have been both a considerable artist and a considerable Nazi.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
But the continued explosions were unsteadying the hand of the drummer.
From The Lost Warship by Williams, Robert Moore
But through all the young man's indignation and resentment there ran an unsteadying doubt, a miserable doubt of himself.
From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
It was a trifle unsteadying even to him.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
