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 English writer Daniel O'Brien, in his modest, more objective new book, Clint Eastwood Film-Maker , suggests that Eastwood wouldn't actually put up with Parker for a second: The saxophonist's unruly passion, his commitment to his art, is the antithesis of Eastwood's manly, frugal, shoot-it-and-move-on way of working.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • To toss off a cliché of my own, the Web is just too unruly.


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