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
  • 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
  • Labor unrest is shaping up to be the Hollywood narrative of the year.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
  • However, this isn't the first time Waymo has seen its vehicles become victims of civil unrest.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 14 June 2025
  • Trump orders 'largest mass deportation operation' as unrest erupts in major cities.
    FOXNews.com, 16 June 2025

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