How to Use unrest in a Sentence

unrest

noun

• The country has experienced years of civil unrest.
• The supreme mufti of Dagestan, Sheikh Akhmad Afandi, called for the unrest at the airport to stop.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• The topic of conversation shifted to the civil unrest around the White House.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• This kind of seismic unrest has happened multiple times over the past 50 years at the Campi Flegrei.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2023
• The poisonings have spread further fear among parents as Iran has faced months of unrest.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
• Seismic unrest can be a sign that a volcano is waking up, but the full story is much more complex.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Labor unrest is shaping up to be the Hollywood narrative of the year.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
• All told, close to 3,500 people have been arrested since unrest began a week ago.
  — James Regan, Fortune, 4 July 2023
• Since the revolution, Iran has faced low-level separatist unrest from Kurds in the country's northwest, the Baluch in the east and Arabs in the southwest.
  — Jon Gambrell The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• Israeli raids and arrests have intensified across the West Bank since the war began, and Jenin has been a center of unrest.
  — Rachel pannett, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• The video also included visuals of the unrest and riots that took place during the height of the pandemic in 2020.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• The announcement appeared to calm some of the tensions that have fueled three tumultuous months of unrest.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Trump did not repeat his call to protest Thursday, but police forces around the country are on guard for potential unrest.
  — Michelle L. Price and Jonathan J. Cooper, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv over the weekend as months of protests culminated in a day of mass unrest.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
• But firework shows have been canceled in parts of the country this year, for fear of a resurgence of the unrest that has just swept France and for the risk of fire in the face of the extreme heat that is a new fixture of French summers.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• But law enforcement in New York has been making preparations for any unrest, should Trump face charges.
  — Farnoush Amiri, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
• While the outbreak of mob justice caused abductions and killings by the gangs to decline temporarily, the resurgence in recent weeks has led to a new phase of unrest.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• Wonder Land: Democrats always seem on the edge of pushing politics into a state of civil unrest.
  — James Taranto, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2023
• In the summer of 2020, a wave of social unrest in America exploded following the murder of George Floyd.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• The bout of banking unrest is likely to weigh on the economy, meaning that the central bank itself does not need to do as much to restrain economic growth.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• Its litany of school-board-meeting unrest included Scott Smith’s arrest in Loudoun County.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Still, his remarks might do little to quell employee unrest.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• Four years ago the Democratic field was more crowded, there was a global pandemic and the country was engulfed in social unrest.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• In the summer of 1469, Warwick staged a rebellion against Edward, launching a new period of unrest.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
• Why has a state in India's northeast exploded in ethnic unrest?
  — Manveena Suri, CNN, 20 July 2023
• But workers are hard to find these days—and labor unrest, an endemic problem at restaurant chains, has touched Chipotle too.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• This is far from the first time Gabon has seen a power struggle or unrest over Bongo’s rule, which has frequently been disputed by critics.
  — Jake Kwon, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• His tenure was mired in controversy and plagued by civil unrest.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
• Many of those detained since the unrest began on Tuesday are minors, with an average age of 17, according to Darmanin.
  — Jake Kwon, CNN, 2 July 2023
• And in this era of labor unrest, the theatrically staged speeches about capitalism by an activist named Jones (Kara Young) are on point.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024