How to Use rabble in a Sentence

rabble

noun

• How about a flying coach who doesn’t teach you how to be a pilot but how to mix with the rabble?
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2021
• What Ed is not, in this instance at least, is a rabble-rouser without a cause.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• When the rabble show up with pitchforks and torches, the queen comes to the balcony and quiets them.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 23 June 2017
• The dogs of war were baying, bloody chaos was let loose, And high above the rabble rose a scaffold and a noose.
  — John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• The outgoing party chairman had to step in and ask the rabble to show some respect.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 May 2021
• But the rabble-rousing spirit of that stealth semester is still alive and still kicking the status quo.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• There’s a rabble-rousing politician with grievances galore.
  — Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2026
• On occasion, priests have led the crowds, giving them the appearance more of a giant church choir than an angry rabble.
  — S.r. | Shanghai, The Economist, 14 June 2019
• Now, the prospect of the rabble-rousing Meloni taking power seems more likely than ever.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• William Ackman, once an omnipresent rabble-rouser, is barely visible these days.
  — Cara Lombardo, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2019
• Here, the son has run out of funds and been expelled from a brothel by an angry rabble, most likely prostitutes, wielding a broom and spear, and a guard with a sword.
  — Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2022
• In her cell, surrounded by her fellow rabble-rousing women, Deborah works the room.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 1 May 2026
• Most of the students involved, even the cynical politicos and the high-spirited rabble-rousers, seem pleasant and engaged.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2020
• The mosquito emoji will join the rabble of emoji wildlife including butterflies, bees, whales and rabbits.
  — Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
• Patterson said that every year there are crashers, who merely slip into a red frock and join the rabble without paying the registration fee.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 1 Aug. 2017
• How dare the lowly rabble at Fenway Park treat our esteemed mayor and governor with such disrespect!
  — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
• There’s something quite magical, really, about millions of bits of colorful paper flying like snow through the air over a raucous rabble.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 31 Dec. 2025
• In Kobach’s world, white, God-fearing Americans are under assault from the brown, unhinged rabble.
  — Eric Armstrong, New Republic, 7 July 2017
• But Sanders is a proud rabble-rouser, and that could be simpatico with the African-American power broker.
  — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2015
• Áñez and the opposition counter that Morales’ ouster was the proper outcome for an election stolen by a corrupt and power-hungry rabble-rouser.
  — Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• At the same time, Democratic leaders, backed by a rabble, stormed City Hall and seized control of the local government.
  — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
• One-time rabble-rouser Nivellen brings up stories of their old adventures together; how is the hard-drinking Geralt now a dad?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• There wasn’t just the rise of Newt Gingrich, his congressional rabble-rousers and freelance partisanship.
  — The Hive, 20 Jan. 2017
• Tucks was a rabble of Loyola University dudes, who didn't believe Carnival needed to be a stodgy old man's game.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Hundreds of companies are a disorganized rabble.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
• The Chronicle, which had been a mainstream Republican outlet but now went all in on the rabble-rousing demagogue.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2021
• Steve heads up a reform school for volatile, cursing and rabble-rousing English boys, and his mental health is tested when a documentary crew shows up and word gets out the school is closing.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
• Tanner spoke in a blend of political rabble-rousing and entrepreneurial uplift.
  — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
• If the Italian right wins power, Meloni will have to translate all the years of populist rabble-rousing into effective governance.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• Yeoh and Erivo shield Grande from the subsequent rabble before the cast resumes their walk down the yellow carpet and Wen is dragged away by security.
  — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Nov. 2025