uneasily

Example Sentences

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Asked by visiting reporters in front of U.S. officials recently when she would hold elections, Rodríguez smiled uneasily.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Investors have uneasily adjusted to a new normal, where companies that used to be some of the world’s biggest and most reliable free cash-flow generators now don’t have a lot of cash to spare.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

That reasoning sits uneasily with the court’s modern insistence on historical analogy.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

Set in Cold War Moscow, “Ponies” falls, intriguingly and occasionally uneasily, somewhere between FX’s “The Americans” and underappreciated female-empowerment comedy film “The Spy Who Dumped Me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

The tired men who had come there to pick up furs from the Anishinabe people stood uneasily on the rocky shore.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich