Example sentences for: unruly

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

  • Europa sits innocently on the back of a tame bull while a handmaiden tends to her mistress's unruly hair.

  • The prefect, Bernard Bonnet, who was sent to Napoleon's island by the socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to impose law and order on unruly Corsican nationalists, is alleged to have ordered his police force to burn down a beach restaurant as an example to them.

  • 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.”

  • 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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