How to Use unrest in a Sentence

unrest

noun

• The country has experienced years of civil unrest.
• By that time, more than 300 people had died in the unrest.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 25 July 2022
• 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 world will have to do more to prevent hunger and the risk of unrest that soaring food prices could trigger.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• The good start aside, the conditions that have led to fan unrest remain.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2024
• More than a week of protests and civil unrest followed the teenager's death.
  — Selina Guevara, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2024
• There was unrest in the ranks amid suspicion that the creative teams had lost all control of the purse strings.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
• The British screen industry was not immune from the unrest.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2024
• The topic of conversation shifted to the civil unrest around the White House.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• Due to ongoing unrest in Yemen, the museum has agreed to store the objects for two years.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
• That’s the chance that Alaska’s Mount Spurr will erupt after showing signs of unrest over the past 10 months, experts say.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
• Owners of shops that have been looted in the unrest were assessing the damage.
  — NBC News, 11 Jan. 2022
• The total death toll since Monday was unclear, but more than 150 people have died in the unrest since the election was held.
  — Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
• The unrest emerged in the wake of the Southport knife attack that claimed the lives of three young girls, causing far-right leaning groups to call for demonstrations and protests.
  — Helena Skinner, ABC News, 9 Aug. 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 score is tethered to the sweeping unrest of the natural habitat holding the boys captive.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 20 Sep. 2022
• The poisonings have spread further fear among parents as Iran has faced months of unrest.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
• The six days of unrest were sparked when a white police officer pulled over a pair of stepbrothers, who were Black.
  — NBC News, 13 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Black Friday saw some of the labor unrest that has rippled through the retail industry over the past year.
  — Anne D'innocenzio, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2022
• When his dad goes to board up their liquor store in South Central in case there's unrest, the boy sneaks out of the house to deliver him a gun for protection.
  — John Cho, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2022
• His electoral campaign had centered on the promise of putting an end to the unrest in Donbas, which had been rumbling on for years.
  — Anna Batta, The Conversation, 2 June 2025
• The nation was wracked by food and fuel shortages as labor unrest.
  — Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2022
• The unrest that spread through Los Angeles 27 years later was, in part, a function of rage at the same privations.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• The demonstration at the Bushehr project and the Abadan and Kangan oil refineries marked the first time the unrest had spread to Iran's crucial oil industry.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 11 Oct. 2022
• There are still very different theories about the root causes of the unrest.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022
• Fuller had been watching the Continent’s social unrest for some time, and writing about it in the Tribune.
  — James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
• Because of the political unrest and violence in Haiti, the Haitian team cannot host any games.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 31 May 2025
• Newsom maintains the call took place days earlier — on June 6 or 7 — and that Trump steered the conversation away when Newsom tried to bring up the unrest.
  — Bethany Wales, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2025
• The rally has emboldened bitcoin price bulls who remained optimistic in the face of geopolitical unrest over the last two weeks.
  — Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025