How to Use unruly in a Sentence

unruly

adjective

• This unruly, badass look is for only the coolest of cool.
  — Ann Wang, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2022
• Get unruly hairs in line with this soft-hold wax stick.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 15 Dec. 2022
• Not so this time in the unruly wake of the U.S. retreat from Kabul in August 2021.
  — Time, 3 Dec. 2022
• Made Pretty, to tells us how to refresh the area of the home that tends to become the most unruly — the closet.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
• As in Melville, worlds collide amid the unruly frictions of men on the margins.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• Of course, these tweezers don’t just work on blood-sucking bugs and unruly brows.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2023
• When faced with harsh weather or unruly terrain, clothing should be the thing that saves the day—not spoils it.
  — Lauren Matison, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2022
• Last year, back-to-back shootings left two dead and brought unruly crowds to the streets prompting a state of emergency.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• The curtains blew in all night, and the surf was incessant, unruly, and somehow soothing.
  — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
• Disneyland is not the only park to struggle with unruly crowds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• Plenty of fans were ejected from the game for unruly behavior.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Their first claim to fame came in 1974 when the group issued an unasked-for report on unruly behavior in local schools.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2022
• The park also prohibits any unruly behavior or weapons of any kind.
  — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• In her pre-groom photo, the poodle is covered in a thick, dirty, and unruly coat, while the post-groom pictures show a slender, clean dog that can move freely.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• This trimmer is ideal for men who deal with unruly ingrown hairs.
  — Sam Peters, ELLE, 17 Dec. 2022
• My bladder felt like an unruly schoolchild waiting for the final bell.
  — Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Her next album, Anti, in 2016, was an unruly, stoner-pop art piece that made a statement.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
• Geppetto attempts to mold the unruly Pinocchio to act more like Carlo and encourages him to go to both church and school.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
• For more than a year — through last spring — unruly behavior at government meetings seemed on the rise across the nation.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
• Even the thickest and most unruly hair is easily tamed with this super-strong hold pomade.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
• Most visitors to the virtual Kmart aren’t quite so unruly.
  — WIRED, 3 Sep. 2022
• This is a ripe time for Democrats to make a big bet that there are more people out there who want a calm and prosperous country instead of an unruly one.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2022
• Anyone who needs a more substantial gel to tame unruly or ultra-frizzy curls.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 22 July 2023
• All of these can lead to unruly or violent behavior, and not just among young people.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The police have used drones throughout the summer: To tell Pride revelers to go home, to monitor the unruly video game giveaway in Union Square and to watch for sharks.
  — Nate Schweber, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Vultures 1 is his most focused work in years— all the songs are complete and seemingly finished; and the tracklist is not an unruly 20+ songs.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
• Photograph: Amazon Having a long mane of unruly, tumbling curls is both a blessing and a curse.
  — WIRED, 19 June 2023
• But as the bloc tries to enforce its rules on the unruly owner of X, critics say Brussels is becoming more like Elon Musk, rather than the other way around.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• The Rise Of Gru after a viral trend prompted unruly behavior.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022
• The Internet is the vast, unruly sea on which the latter half of this story is tossed, yet Gabriel describes it as one might a series of guideposts viewed from a passing ship deck.
  — Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024