How to Use unruly in a Sentence

unruly

adjective
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  • 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
  • Real life is merely scenery and footage, and the people who happen to get in the way of it, unruly extras.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Martha, again in the mid-1990s, ably demonstrating the only proper way to prune an unruly tree.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The curtains blew in all night, and the surf was incessant, unruly, and somehow soothing.
    — Peter Heller, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Genetic changes to the DNA within cells may start this unruly process.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 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

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