How to Use unrest in a Sentence

unrest

noun

• The country has experienced years of civil unrest.
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 poisonings have spread further fear among parents as Iran has faced months of unrest.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Labor unrest is shaping up to be the Hollywood narrative of the year.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
• All told, close to 3,500 people have been arrested since unrest began a week ago.
  — James Regan, Fortune, 4 July 2023
• The event brings security concerns and the potential for unrest with protests and counter protests.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
• Since the revolution, Iran has faced low-level separatist unrest from Kurds in the country's northwest, the Baluch in the east and Arabs in the southwest.
  — Jon Gambrell The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• Israeli raids and arrests have intensified across the West Bank since the war began, and Jenin has been a center of unrest.
  — Rachel pannett, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• The Iranian government has played a huge role in stoking unrest in the Middle East.
  — Carol E. B. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
• The unrest also comes as five Memphis cops were charged with second-degree murder and other crimes for the death of a Black man named Tyre Nichols.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2023
• Facing such civil unrest at home, the Iranian Air Force has kept the F-14 flying.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• The video also included visuals of the unrest and riots that took place during the height of the pandemic in 2020.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• The announcement appeared to calm some of the tensions that have fueled three tumultuous months of unrest.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Future alerts referred to civil unrest and at first told students to shelter in place and later to leave buildings in the area if able.
  — Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024
• The protests were the biggest show of public unrest China had seen in decades, and were quickly put down by security forces.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Slowly, the mood shifted and by nightfall, the demonstration turned to civil unrest.
  — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
• In the run-up to his selection as Harris’s potential VP, Walz hasn’t faced too many questions about his response to the 2020 unrest.
  — Christian Paz, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
• Trump did not repeat his call to protest Thursday, but police forces around the country are on guard for potential unrest.
  — Michelle L. Price and Jonathan J. Cooper, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv over the weekend as months of protests culminated in a day of mass unrest.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
• In many ways, the ‘74 sit-in is considered a bookend to a period of student unrest that was defined by civil rights and the Vietnam War.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024
• And amid this global unrest, something changed about Black History Month, too.
  — Hena Bryan, refinery29.com, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024