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.

  • In the great dome’s interior rotunda, painter George Southwell’s murals illustrate the four virtues that “made” British Columbia: Courage, as shown by George Vancouver confronting the Spanish at Nootka Sound in 1792; Spirit of Enterprise, with James Douglas establishing Fort Victoria for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1842; Work, by those who had to build the Fort; and Justice, meted out to the unruly mob engaged in the 1858 gold rush.

  • 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.

  • It (almost giddily) states "the unruly forces of democracy collided with the elite world of trade policy"; "the elitists ...

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


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