Example sentences for: unruly

How can you use “unruly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Both groups talk up abstract virtues like honor, commitment, and thrift, but conservatives then propose specific policies that put into law their moral and religious preferences in order to deal with all sorts of issues: unwed mothers, absent fathers, unruly schoolchildren, gay lovers, and so on.

  • When the police control unruly mobs by wielding wooden batons (lathi in Hindi), they make a “lathi-charge.”

  • Not a whodunnit at all, it's more like a postmodern western, the parable of an unruly patriarch driven to madness by a long line of unruly patriarchs before him; an impotent vigilante in search of something--anything--to shoot.

  • -- Robin Leach quells the unruly crowd at the Cool Site of the Year Awards

  • While trustbusters called him the devil, Rockefeller looked upon himself as a saver of corporate souls who consolidated an unruly business and did away with redundancy.


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