Ill at ease in a sentence (esp. good sentence like quote, proverb…)
Meaning: adj. not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner.
1, He is always ill at ease when facing his step-father.
2, On camera he appears twitchy and ill at ease.
3, You always look ill at ease in a suit.
4, I felt ill at ease in such formal clothes.
5, He appeared embarrassed and ill at ease with the sustained applause that greeted him.
6, He seemed ill at ease and not his usual self.
7, He always felt shy and ill at ease at parties.
8, With two children bedridden the mother was ill at ease.
9, The boy was ill at ease in the presence of the headmaster.
10, Dave always looks ill at ease in a suit.
11, Rehnquist sometimes can appear ill at ease in public.
12, He is extremely ill at ease.
13, Nevertheless,(http://sentencedict.com/ill at ease.html) their formality sits ill at ease with Esau’s spontaneous show of love.
14, They looked ill at ease in the same camera frame.
15, This afternoon, however, the barman felt oddly ill at ease.
16, It was he now who seemed suddenly embarrassed, ill at ease.
17, He looked about him, for once strangely ill at ease, disconcerted to learn that she had ridden off ahead of him.
18, He appeared jumpy and ill at ease, ready to blurt something out at any moment.
19, She was middle-aged, overweight and ill at ease in the chic little bar.
20, If people are already ill at ease in unfamiliar surroundings the order of service becomes another pressure.
21, Chopra had felt ill at ease since entering the strange domain.
22, By the way, most women are very ill at ease when you call them out from the jury pool.
23, And though at first he appeared shy and ill at ease, he rapidly became a favourite.
24, He pressed the button controlling the trolley and moved forward again, feeling ill at ease and claustrophobic.
25, A nice piece of marquetry as a one-off looks strangely ill at ease amid the clamour.
26, Already Morales talks of being tired, and he appears ill at ease with the insistent pace of campaigning.
27, Blanche enjoyed social drinking with her officers but Dexter sometimes noticed she was ill at ease.
28, His birthday it might be, but the Grand Duke seemed ill at ease as he received them in the morning room.
29, And all of this is inevitable, for Utopians are ill at ease at the sharp end of politics.
30, A thin, nervous child, with drab mid-brown hair and pointed features, she was ill at ease.