"unsettling call" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a phone call that causes discomfort, unease, or disturbance to the person receiving it. Example: The unsettling call from her ex-husband left her feeling anxious and afraid for the safety of their children.
The drama began on Monday afternoon, when Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who was flying home from Illinois to Andrews Air Force Base, took an unsettling call from General McChrystal.
In shaping the stage action, the librettist Paul Schick picked out several episodes that McPhee's readers are sure to remember: the long-drawn-out construction of the house, a comic shakedown by his native neighbors, an unsettling call from a suspected Japanese spy, a visitation by spirits of ill omen.
It was late the next morning, the weekend before the election, when Baker campaign manager John Nakaoka received an unsettling call about his candidate.
At the conclusion of Tuesday's post, I had just applied for cheaper credit card processing from Emerald World, and I had received an unsettling phone call about the status of my application.
Clenching a copy of his Chinese partner's proposal for another acquisition it would be the company's fourth he paced the floor and replayed in his mind that morning's unsettling phone call.
One night, after a bottle of tequila and an unsettling phone call from an ex-girlfriend's mother, my brother stood in the yard waving his machete, threatening to amputate the caller's limbs.
King's eldest son, Joe Hill (one of the three kids that It was dedicated to) has recently published an excellent and hugely unsettling novel called NOS-4R2.
Having said that, abandoning the familiar, if wrong, conception of human behavior is daunting and unsettling; it calls for establishing new knowledge structures and being open to some humbling truths about ourselves and some uncomfortable truths about our justice system.
It's a feeling which – as the narrator confesses around nine pages into his exploration of this fleeting sensation – never lasts more than a few seconds, but which he finds so unsettling it calls into question the stability of the entire world.
A secretary to take the unsettling phone calls from school.
I, like other parents, used to believe that if I worried enough than there would be no mishaps and no unsettling phone calls or news.
