How to Use anarchy in a Sentence

anarchy

noun

• When the teacher was absent, there was anarchy in the classroom.
• Anarchy reigned in the empire's remote provinces.
• The collapse of Qaddafi’s regime loosed a wave of anarchy.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Hong Kong has sometimes looked closer to anarchy than to the rule of law.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• And he's seen the chivalry of the road give way to selfishness and high-speed anarchy.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, chicagotribune.com, 27 May 2017
• The majority of taxis and car services had taken the night off to avoid anarchy in the streets.
  — Steve Adelman, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2022
• Oh the weight, the strain, the cart tipping over, the bags sliding apart and then off the cart into anarchy.
  — Judi Dash, The Denver Post, 9 May 2017
• If the referees decide anarchy is the order of the day, the Jazz will end up on top.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
• The center has held and mere anarchy is still slouching somewhere off on the horizon.
  — The Hive, 24 Apr. 2017
• People seemed to move about the store with no sense of purpose other than to create anarchy.
  — al, 4 Apr. 2022
• Not taking away all the money and letting anarchy reign.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• That state of emergency has since expired, but the anarchy has not.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
• The filmmaking, too, wants for a bit of anarchy, or at least some itchy verve.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
• The truth is, New York right now could use more anarchy, not less.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• He could barely be trusted, but look at the anarchy that took root after his death.
  — Greg Dobbs, The Denver Post, 14 May 2017
• Perec runs through a number of ways to address that good-natured anarchy.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2021
• Put up with this drug store anarchy and theft, or shut down like Walgreens.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• With the amount of anarchy and incompetence, why would anyone want to work there?
  — Hunter Cooke Diehards, ajc, 30 Nov. 2017
• Just maybe, amid this anarchy, voters are starting to see that.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
• Much of the sense of anarchy is down to the Valkyrie's combination of noise and vibration when revved.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 6 Mar. 2023
• Condemn the violence, and the looting and, as Woodfin called it, the anarchy.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 1 June 2020
• Today there is anarchy — with citizens taking to the streets in protest.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 5 June 2019
• Marz escapes the noose somehow and promises to wield anarchy on anyone who troubles him again.
  — Nathan Smith, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2022
• The tony critics as well as the hack book reviewers have contributed to this anarchy of standards.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• But Proudhon was far from the only prominent thinker to advance the cause of anarchy.
  — Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 7 Sep. 2018
• The style of this jacket suggests anarchy, but the color says, please pass the Grey Poupon.
  — Courtney Shea, The Cut, 27 Mar. 2018
• Isn’t picking and choosing to obey or disobey laws anarchy?
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 21 July 2019
• That would have led to anarchy, securities firms told the exchange.
  — Toshiro Hasegawa, Bloomberg.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• This is the new anarchy that’s pushing [people] forward to try and create new things.
  — Amber Kallor, Allure, 11 Oct. 2018
• Peer-to-peer group sessions turn into anarchy sometimes because the rules seem to be in the eye of each beholder.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 29 Apr 2024