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How to use ill at ease in a sentence

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With a sprinkling of new players still bedding in, they looked ill at ease in the face of a familiar, and formidable, United side.
But he seemed ill at ease in Liszt's flamboyant Spanish Rhapsody, which in his hands wanted for inflection, contrast and affective intensity.
Worse than that, everybody felt ill at ease and unsure how to behave in front of the former enemy.
In the 1980s and 1990s we were ill at ease and unable to get a hold on things as we faced a big black hole and a slow drift to oblivion.
She sits isolated, straining at the boundaries of the picture, thoroughly ill at ease with her space.
The dark elf seemed ill at ease among the buildings, and clung close to One Nine's shaggy thigh.
On the eve of her wedding journey, she has a swanky supper with her father, a bank manager ill at ease with his daughter's high-flying tastes.
Kathy fidgeted beside him, studying her nails, ill at ease among these obvious geeks and losers.
This is inevitable, and a reader may be ill at ease at the scarcity of evidence that underlies many of these reconstructions.
Why did he seem so ill at ease, so uncomfortable with the role he had to play?
It made him uncomfortable and ill at ease, and he felt she was trying to keep him there in the pilothouse.
Lilian, tall and slim and intellectual, seemed ill at ease among the debs and toffs.
She had become very uncomfortable and ill at ease when visiting her parents and suffered chronic tension.
The world depicted is a fascinating one, and we gaze upon it with rapt attention, even as the disquieting mood of the film keeps us ill at ease.
I remember a man ill at ease with his height and fearful that his profound musical abilities were undervalued.
Russians, for historical reasons, can be acutely ill at ease with the idea of expounding uncomfortable truths in a formal setting.
The three bleary-eyed women did not see the beauty in the brightening when they looked up at the sky and only felt ill at ease when they did.
I just shifted in my seat, feeling very nervous, and ill at ease.
If suggestions run out rather quickly, the idea can be turned round: what might make the newcomer feel ill at ease?
They are ill at ease and experience spiritual hunger, but they don not know what it is they are yearning for.
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Examples from Classical Literature
While shorty was rapidly gaining health and strength, his mind was ill at ease.
He wanted quiet and was ever ill at ease among the superficialities of a hypocritical civilisation.
The absconder is often too inarticulate and ill at ease to give a clear picture of what was in his mind when he went away.
From that moment I felt ill at ease with her, in spite of her graciousness and her kindness.
Notwithstanding his plentitude of power, tending to inspire him with sufficient assurance, the suitor felt ill at ease.
He was ill at ease and full of self-reproach, for it seemed to him he had neglected his oath.
I snuffed it off, and, very ill at ease under the influence of cold and lingering nausea, sat up and spread open the injured tome on my knee.
Val stood there, ill at ease, while the swamper eyed him composedly.
Poor Jack felt extremely ill at ease, and not at all grateful to Vickers.
They have been ill at ease since they were forced to accept so many human beings into their confidence.
Dorothy looked at the King when she heard this song and noticed that he seemed disturbed and ill at ease.
The one role in life in which I fancied you ill at ease you seem to fill to perfection.
Equally ill at ease, they both took refuge in the commonplace phrases suggested by the occasion.
Twemlow has the air of being ill at ease, as he takes his hand from his forehead and replies.
She seemed ill at ease on the piano stool, and he begged her to take the chair by the window.
You ask me why, tho' ill at ease Within this region I subsist?
He was surprised, ill at ease, almost embarrassed at meeting her thus so unexpectedly.
The next morning Meer Jaffier rode into our camp at Daudpore, ill at ease.
Wade, ill at ease in her own parlor, caught the afterthought quality of Rose's tone.
He was sad and dispirited, and ill at ease with his own heart.
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