unrest
IPA: ʌnrˈɛst
noun
- A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.
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Examples of "unrest" in Sentences
- There was social unrest in this period.
- I will never forget the video of the unrest.
- The East German police failed to quell the unrest.
- He defined the charges of causing civil unrest and sedition.
- Because of the unrest in Tibet, the Tibet editors are swamped.
- At the time, the slave's unrest had spread east of the Adriatic.
- After the Battle of the Braes in 1882, the unrest spread to Glendale.
- He paints the alienation, the loneliness, the unrest, the uncertainty.
- A wave of unrest was seen across the continent in the Revolution of 1848.
- At the end of the 18th century, there was growing unrest in the Netherlands.