unruly
IPA: ʌnrˈuɫi
adjective
- Wild; uncontrolled.
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Examples of "unruly" in Sentences
- The meeting became loud and unruly.
- He was tempestuous, temperamental and unruly.
- The unruly princes were intoxicated with the regal power.
- One in contact with it was like the rider of an unruly camel.
- It's rather unruly and the examples are a bit of a hodgepodge.
- A charva is the true form of unruly youth, the ASBO generation.
- His resolute handling of the situation quells the unruly crewmen.
- An unruly mob threatened to storm the building in search of Thompson.
- Clearly the sheer volume of vandalism to the article was becoming unruly.
- He's placed in charge of the unruly and undertrained reconnaissance platoon.
- She looked at his hands, the backs of which were covered in unruly black hair.
- Nip off the leaves that are faded, prune in unruly shoots, see if any need re-potting.
- It reaches up the poles and strives in unruly tufts down where the trees harbor their gloom.
- It acts as a kind of palimpsest over which the literary writer might inscribe his/her own variations on "criminal" behavior and its sources in unruly human impulses.
- Principal Hector Espinoza has taken the unusual step of canceling the final seven games of the Cougars season after the team had engaged in what he called unruly behavior during competition.
- As soon as practicable he called the unruly body to order, beat upon the rude desk to enforce attention, and, in the lull that succeeded, briefly defined the purpose of the meeting, ending with introducing the speaker and craving for her their respectful attention.
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