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 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
• 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
• The nation was wracked by food and fuel shortages as labor unrest.
  — Town & Country, 19 Sep. 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
• 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
• His death led to civil unrest in Maryland's biggest city.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2022
• Many of the murals were painted in 2020, during the social unrest caused by the murder of George Floyd, although some of the pieces predate that summer.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2022
• 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 film follows two teenage sisters living in Peru in 1992 as the country slides into political unrest.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
• Many of these refugees did not suffer only one trauma, but a second trauma, having to leave their new American homes because of political unrest.
  — Henry A. Green, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024