Example sentences for: unruly

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

  • 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.

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

  • In every era, American schoolchildren--especially teen-agers--have been unruly and destructive.

  • until gold discovered on Queen Charlotte Island in 1852 and on the Fraser River six years later prompted Britain to set up a new colony to control the influx of unruly American fortune-hunters.

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


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