How to Use unrest in a Sentence

unrest

noun

• The country has experienced years of civil unrest.
• By that time, more than 300 people had died in the unrest.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 25 July 2022
• 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 world will have to do more to prevent hunger and the risk of unrest that soaring food prices could trigger.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• 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
• There was unrest in the ranks amid suspicion that the creative teams had lost all control of the purse strings.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
• 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
• That’s the chance that Alaska’s Mount Spurr will erupt after showing signs of unrest over the past 10 months, experts say.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
• The total death toll since Monday was unclear, but more than 150 people have died in the unrest since the election was held.
  — Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
• 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 unrest that spread through Los Angeles 27 years later was, in part, a function of rage at the same privations.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 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
• There were no reports of further unrest in Raqqa Friday.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The civil unrest led to the cancellation of international flights into Haiti, and the country has been declared a no-go zone for charter pilots.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
• Authorities blamed the unrest on armed remnants of the Assad government, but acknowledged that some of the civilian killings were the fault of undisciplined factions or individual actors.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025