Example sentences for: unruly

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.


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