How to Use unruly in a Sentence

unruly

adjective

• This unruly, badass look is for only the coolest of cool.
  — Ann Wang, Seventeen, 9 Nov. 2022
• Get unruly hairs in line with this soft-hold wax stick.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 15 Dec. 2022
• The more flesh, the more dangerous and unruly the body became.
  — Virgie Tovar, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• Not so this time in the unruly wake of the U.S. retreat from Kabul in August 2021.
  — Time, 3 Dec. 2022
• Made Pretty, to tells us how to refresh the area of the home that tends to become the most unruly — the closet.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
• As in Melville, worlds collide amid the unruly frictions of men on the margins.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• Of course, these tweezers don’t just work on blood-sucking bugs and unruly brows.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2023
• When faced with harsh weather or unruly terrain, clothing should be the thing that saves the day—not spoils it.
  — Lauren Matison, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Dec. 2022
• If the pile becomes unruly, two smaller heaps work just as well.
  — Allison Duncan, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• Last year, back-to-back shootings left two dead and brought unruly crowds to the streets prompting a state of emergency.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
• This technique is most often used to shape up an unruly shrub.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2022
• The curtains blew in all night, and the surf was incessant, unruly, and somehow soothing.
  — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
• Your unruly subjects will bow down to you as the queen in Alice in Wonderland.
  — Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping, 8 June 2022
• With his head in his hands, fingers scraping through the thick, unruly brown locks, and breath shuddering from the tight line of his lips.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
• At the time, the eastern half of the country viewed the Arizona Territory as unruly and not Anglo enough.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2022
• Disneyland is not the only park to struggle with unruly crowds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• Plenty of fans were ejected from the game for unruly behavior.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Their first claim to fame came in 1974 when the group issued an unasked-for report on unruly behavior in local schools.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Sep. 2022
• The park also prohibits any unruly behavior or weapons of any kind.
  — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• In her pre-groom photo, the poodle is covered in a thick, dirty, and unruly coat, while the post-groom pictures show a slender, clean dog that can move freely.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Smaller people might find the large size unruly or unattractive.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 6 June 2022
• The next year, in 2016, large and unruly crowds descended on Gulf Shores which led to the city to abruptly adopt an alcohol ban on the city’ s beaches.
  — al, 28 Mar. 2022
• This trimmer is ideal for men who deal with unruly ingrown hairs.
  — Sam Peters, ELLE, 17 Dec. 2022
• Brazen and unruly, Tedra is a sensual handful, grinding to the music one minute, teaching her son the tricks of how to hold onto a man the next.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• My bladder felt like an unruly schoolchild waiting for the final bell.
  — Shuang Xuetao, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Her next album, Anti, in 2016, was an unruly, stoner-pop art piece that made a statement.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2022
• Geppetto attempts to mold the unruly Pinocchio to act more like Carlo and encourages him to go to both church and school.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
• For more than a year — through last spring — unruly behavior at government meetings seemed on the rise across the nation.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
• The contract of carriage states that the airline may refuse to transport or remove an unruly or disruptive passenger from an aircraft at any point.
  — Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2024
• During the 2017 inauguration, unruly, violent protesters damaged the city and set a car on fire.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024