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.
  • In new conditions of anarchy, groups can see other groups as threatening even as each only seeks to defend itself.
    Charles L. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • The ultimate freedom is anarchy and the jungle, so actually less freedom can bring joy to someone other than the top predator.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • In short, the situation with pants parallels the condition of Western politics: mere anarchy loosed upon the world.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The collapse of Qaddafi’s regime loosed a wave of anarchy.
    Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The truth is, New York right now could use more anarchy, not less.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • And he's seen the chivalry of the road give way to selfishness and high-speed anarchy.
    Fredrick Kunkle, chicagotribune.com, 27 May 2017
  • Hong Kong has sometimes looked closer to anarchy than to the rule of law.
    The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The buoyant anarchy and glee David Yow shared with the crowd came across as a birthing moment of joy.
    Seth Dodson, Pitchfork, 6 May 2024
  • 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 style of this jacket suggests anarchy, but the color says, please pass the Grey Poupon.
    Courtney Shea, The Cut, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Condemn the violence, and the looting and, as Woodfin called it, the anarchy.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 1 June 2020
  • The filmmaking, too, wants for a bit of anarchy, or at least some itchy verve.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In May 1958, France was teetering on the edge of anarchy.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • To try to bring about a turnaround, the Trump campaign will continue to press the line that a vote for Biden is a vote for anarchy.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2020
  • In Philip’s case, the myth was the good Jewish boy traduced by inner anarchy.
    Benjamin Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Put up with this drug store anarchy and theft, or shut down like Walgreens.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Brazil would win the game 2-1, but the result of the replay was overshadowed by the anarchy witnessed in the initial tie.
    SI.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Somehow that move didn’t save the show from the Gunn/Safran DC property purge anarchy.
    Vulture, 1 Feb. 2023
  • A lot of the things were just about anarchy and counterculture.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 1 July 2024
  • That state of emergency has since expired, but the anarchy has not.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
  • Image With Qaddafi gone, the West stood back as anarchy engulfed the country.
    Dexter Filkins, New York Times, 18 May 2018
  • The center has held and mere anarchy is still slouching somewhere off on the horizon.
    The Hive, 24 Apr. 2017
  • But the chaos in U.S. income redistribution is as great as the anarchy in the tax code.
    John H. Cochrane, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2017
  • People seemed to move about the store with no sense of purpose other than to create anarchy.
    al, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Still, Matze is the first to admit that there are rules—this is supposed to be liberty, not anarchy.
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 12 Nov. 2020

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