How to Use unruly in a Sentence

unruly

adjective

• But the hair in his armpits is too long and unruly now.
  — Hurmat Kazmi, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• The ocelot proved unruly and was shipped out to the Portland Zoo.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2020
• This unruly, badass look is for only the coolest of cool.
  — Ann Wang, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2022
• The young Hanks plays Travis Bugg, an unruly point guard for the Waves.
  — EW.com, 28 Mar. 2025
• Get unruly hairs in line with this soft-hold wax stick.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 15 Dec. 2022
• The more flesh, the more dangerous and unruly the body became.
  — Virgie Tovar, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 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
• Before the trim, the pup had an unruly white curly mane that covered her eyes.
  — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
• Their personas seem derived from the unruly and edgy rockstars of the past.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2024
• This isn’t the first time goats have been brought on to tackle unruly slices of land in the Baltimore area.
  — Angela Roberts, baltimoresun.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• 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
• If the pile becomes unruly, two smaller heaps work just as well.
  — Allison Duncan, WSJ, 22 Mar. 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
• This technique is most often used to shape up an unruly shrub.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2022
• The limbs erupted from the seat and desktop, in all directions — strange, unruly, alive.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Real life is merely scenery and footage, and the people who happen to get in the way of it, unruly extras.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
• Martha, again in the mid-1990s, ably demonstrating the only proper way to prune an unruly tree.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
• For a long time, Martha Stewart kept the lid on the more unruly details of her personal life sealed tight.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• The curtains blew in all night, and the surf was incessant, unruly, and somehow soothing.
  — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
• Genetic changes to the DNA within cells may start this unruly process.
  — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024
• Your unruly subjects will bow down to you as the queen in Alice in Wonderland.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 8 June 2022
• With his head in his hands, fingers scraping through the thick, unruly brown locks, and breath shuddering from the tight line of his lips.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
• One that’s been kidnapped, bound and gagged by an unruly gang of roasted garlic cloves.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2021
• Step back and look at the shrub and remove any unruly shoots back to a bud or lateral branch that take away from the plant's overall shape.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 Feb. 2025
• Art looks great within its arcades (never mind the glare from its unruly neighbor), and the café is among the most pleasant places to sit in the city.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
• New York City, with its traffic and unruly pedestrians, has long been out of reach for self-driving car companies.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 20 June 2025
• Those riots quickly spread north, leading to several nights of showdowns between law enforcement and unruly bad actors.
  — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025