How To Use Unruly In A Sentence

But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
She will clip her long, unruly hair with a tarnished barrette and see her off to school.
Gardeners regularly stroll the grounds, picking up stray pieces of trash and trimming unruly bushes.
The unruly bunch pushed into the White House, clods standing on the silk-upholstered furniture in muddy boots to get a glimpse of the new president (who was trying not to be crushed by his well-wishers). Inauguration Party Like It's 1829
None of the unruly activities in themselves would be regarded as seriously criminal, but their accumulative effect is having a real impact on the usage of the community building, and may even threaten its future survival.

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London was not the only place with unruly crowds. The English Civil War: A People's History
The university marshal arrived with the six ‘bedels,’ who are proctors carrying long silver rods to intimidate unruly undergraduates into better behavior.
Residents say the area was once a peaceful place to live, but has been ruined by unruly youths.
the vexed parents of an unruly teenager
He wore a simple silver band on his unruly black curls, for he was not yet old enough to wear the coronet of the King-in-Waiting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
I sat down on the chair and wondered if there was any point in trying to make my unruly mop of hair behave.
Often they bounce around on a truck seat, or maybe ride in a saddle scabbard all day strapped to an unruly mustang, acquiring numerous dings and dents.
Judged alongside their abstemious Anglo-Saxon counterparts, they were seen as unruly, belligerent and not to be relied on, a slur that was extended to generations through media distortion and police discrimination.
At Oxford he went in for scenes of dissipation, at Wilson's he was unruly, in Naples he had a mistress.
Oh keep me from these unsober, distempered, mad, unruly thoughts! Samuel Rutherford
She first hit screens at age 21 in 1986 as a bleach-blonde punkette with close-cropped hair and a taste for unruly eye makeup.
Teacher training courses are highly academic but offer little advice about unruly pupils. Times, Sunday Times
And come to think of it, pretty much any cute but unruly creature would have done a better job than the penguins. Times, Sunday Times
The website suggests a no-nonsense attitude towards unruly behaviour on the court.
In Shakespeare's day the groundlings were a lot more unruly, and you could say that that actress wasn't being sincere or true to her Shakespearean traditions, taking umbrage at a harmless bit of tom foolery that wouldn't have caused Richard Burbage to drop so much as a single iamb from To be, or not to be. Lance Mannion:
How many babies before mine have been jolted awake by the bumps and cracks in the concrete created by unruly tree roots and water damage?
His usually unruly mop of brown hair is now slicked down with a neat side-parting.
Amid a spray of spilt drinks and nibbles, much cheering, dancing and backslapping, the unruly crowd vented their delirium in the manner of Indian cricket spectators, setting alight their match programs and letting off fireworks.
That night I head to the pulsing potamic souq, more unruly and wanton than the counterpart in Cairo, where the shopkeepers hustle visitors like dice, shaking and prodding until the right answer rolls. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
As well as vandalism, it will target drunken louts and unruly gangs who make neighbourhoods no-go areas.
Her unruly teeth have been tamed into a neat, pearly, Californian smile, the parakeet spiked hair is now a glossy black mane.
The clampdown follows six months of seriously bad behaviour by the more unruly pupils. Times, Sunday Times
The ‘hot rampageous horses of my will’ clearly alludes to Socrates' palinode in The Phaedrus, but Auden, in contrast to Socrates, speaks of at least two unruly horses.
He had a shock of jet-black hair that tended to fall in unruly curls over his forehead no matter how hard Halle tried to keep it in trim. PAINT THE WIND
Face an unruly ocean with a surfboard and see how smug your smile is then. Times, Sunday Times
This week's victim is Casey, who makes the sacrificial decision to work the front of a very unruly house of underfed patrons and leaves her risky chicken-foot experiment in others' hands. Matt's TV Week in Review
She waited with a quiet smile, pleasuring in his unruly impetuousness. CHAPTER XXVI
A number of unruly youth ganged up and terrorized the district.
He's wearing a pair of spectacles and his usually unruly mop of brown hair is now slicked down with a neat side-parting.
The first half ended with the Ives Sonata No. 4, an unruly pastiche of hymns, marches and folk songs in a polytonal texture, which simply stopped mid-phrase. Virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn holds her audience rapt but adds some irritants
Flash forward to Miami International Airport, the said cake bearer is overheard cussing and carrying on in a most unruly fashion.
Rub a small amount of dry shampoo into eyebrows using fingers to amplify shape and thickness while coaxing and securing any unruly hairs into place. The Sun
Duff stopped and turned, stared at it, then ran his fingers through an unruly mop of hair.
Friends say that a death in the family had begun his downward spiral into increasingly unruly behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Not unless in an unruly crowd. Times, Sunday Times
An important issue was raised by the boisterous and often unruly Labour senior whip.
His sandy blonde hair was unruly and uneven from self barbering.
These plants should be kept under control by cutting back any unruly or unwanted stems after flowering has ended. Times, Sunday Times
I have to repent for judging the size of my thighs and nose and lips and the unruly hair. Christianity Today
Families will be admitted, but unruly behaviour will result in warnings, then written warnings and finally ejection from the club. Times, Sunday Times
As the Hon Maurice Williamson said, we have all travelled around places where we have experienced unruly behaviour that is not only unbefitting to the person but brings discredit on other people.
Schools which fail to control unruly pupils could face closure. The Sun
He preached long sermons to his family, cautioned them against frivolity, forbade music, tabued games, and constantly spoke of the tongue as “the unruly member.” Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
Further, no extended sentiment of unruly children growing into responsible, contributing adults matters to anyone who's getting a migraine from a loud child behind them on a flight. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: A reply to Elayne, some more stuff about kids in public places, and then I'm done for now.
Unruly patients will begin with an informal warning from a senior manager, but failure to desist will result in a yellow card being issued.
London was not the only place with unruly crowds. The English Civil War: A People's History
A number of unruly youth ganged up and terrorized the district.
A number of unruly youths ganged up and terrorized the district.
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. February 2010
But in fact Miss Bates is a triumph of style, because she has her own unruly style, which is a part of Austen's prim one.
Raised in evangelistic hellfire, the teenager is violent, caustic, unruly, and cruelly intuitive. The Rapture by Liz Jensen: Book summary
The Megiddo Modern Hebrew-English Dictionary, published in Israel, correctly defines shegetz as follows: ‘unclean animal; loathsome creature, abomination colloquial - pronounced shaygets wretch, unruly youngster; Gentile youngster’. Sha With The Shiksa! | Jewschool
In our family he was the one that was playful, almost unruly, and often prankish. Times, Sunday Times
But, according to the teaching unions, even this pales into insignificance beside the problems of dealing with increasingly unruly pupils and, above all, a crippling workload.
A number of unruly youths ganged up and terrorized the district.
We have, in this country, a generation of obnoxious, unruly, disrespectful louts.
Herbst is a bearish Afrikaner with unruly graying hair and a love of a good joke.
Both the horse and the hawk are unruly, the latter swirling its head around instead of waiting in obedient stillness, and the dogs have curiously rounded leonine heads.
She has to have one of the most distinctive and expressive faces in the business - large, sunken, sad eyes in a thin face surrounded by a mass of unruly long hair shooting out in all directions.
Rub a small amount of dry shampoo into eyebrows using fingers to amplify shape and thickness while coaxing and securing any unruly hairs into place. The Sun
In a supermax prison, when you get unruly, and need a "time out," you go to a holding cell.
Fire up the old lawn mower and get to work on those huge unruly patches of fur? Times, Sunday Times
Hair of an unruly curling black hung awry upon her crooked shoulders and cascaded to the waist.
My two are not the most unruly kids on the block but they are a bit boisterous.
Her eyes seemed to glow bright amber, and her dark hair fell across her back and shoulders in unruly waves.
The Tories want to bring in ‘zero tolerance’ policing in an effort to give communities more confidence that they will be protected from crime and warn the unruly that their misdemeanours will not go unnoticed.
The phrase the marshal used is common in darts to settle unruly patrons. USATODAY.com - O'Meara has bird's eye view; Owen flies high
Without thinking, she blew a puff of air at the unruly hair, which just fogged up her glasses and put small droplets of spit on the lenses.
His flame red hair was unruly, but his attempts to check that unruliness were evident.
Mrs Strong said that unscrupulous landlords in the area were attracting unruly tenants.
It is time the elders and religious leaders within areas of this city got a hold of the unruly and offensive elements among their community's young people.
Caitlin dazzled Vix from the start, sweeping her into the heart of the unruly Somers family, into a world of privilege, adventure, and sexual daring. Summer Sisters: Summary and book reviews of Summer Sisters by Judy Blume.
I supposed it concerned me, more than any other, to be the arbitress of the quarrels of unruly spirits. — Clarissa Harlowe
Student teachers cannot be taught in a lecture hall how to control unruly pupils. Times, Sunday Times
I mean, if they took the side of a wild, unruly anarchist bomb-thrower like Obama (the candidate supported by mere voters, which makes him automatically suspect in the eyes of the MSM), they could kiss any possible future inside the system 'adios'. Hillary Spokesperson Hedges: Obama Has Not Passed Commander-In-Chief Test "At This Point"
The colors are extremely vivid and work to amplify what at first glance appears to be an unruly fetishism of the exotic object.
They will also be able to frogmarch unruly children under 16 back to their homes between the hours of 9pm and 6am.
she sent unruly pupils to see the principal
Several times she was sanctioned by the high priestess for unruly behavior.
And teachers will get powers to control unruly pupils without the fear of disciplinary action. The Sun
10, "For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:" where _especially_ distinguishes The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
The most noticeable thing about her was the mop of unruly, dirty-blonde corkscrew curls framing her heart shaped face.
And they will also be scrutinised on how they handle unruly pupils. The Sun
The head teacher of a school where teachers went on strike last month over pupils' unruly behaviour has been suspended. Times, Sunday Times
Teddy ran thick fingers through his unruly thatch of hair.
a turbulent and unruly childhood
Dab a little on your eyebrows to tame unruly hairs.
He was neither small nor slender and possessed an astonishing amount of unruly blond curls framing his beaming pink face.
A number of unruly youths ganged up and terrorized the district.
They were extremely loud and unruly, tossing food at one another and leaving it on the floor.
As the perpetual curate, he was in charge of a large if slightly unruly parish; evidence suggests that he was an active and conscientious clergyman.
The host was told to shout down on unruly guests in the audience.
Fire up the old lawn mower and get to work on those huge unruly patches of fur? Times, Sunday Times
These plants should be kept under control by cutting back any unruly or unwanted stems after flowering has ended. Times, Sunday Times
And teachers will get powers to control unruly pupils without the fear of disciplinary action. The Sun
Theft and rape cases are on the increase because of the uncontrollable and unruly consumption of alcohol.
As his rating bumped still lower, he found himself constrained at every step by a hostile parliament, obstreperous governors, and unruly businessmen. The Return
His face was roughened by days outdoors in the chill spring, his hair more unruly than ever.
There is a kind of valorous spleen which, like wind, is apt to grow unruly in the stomachs of newly-made soldiers, compelling them to box-lobby brawls and brokenheaded quarrels, unless there can be found some more harmless way to give it vent. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
If you leave it unpruned you can get a huge unruly thicket within a few years.
Compiled by Unruly Media and filleted by Josh1 Bully cat stuffs feline friend in boxClassic. Guardian Viral Video Chart: Hurricane Irene's flash floods and boxing cats
And come to think of it, pretty much any cute but unruly creature would have done a better job than the penguins. Times, Sunday Times
Unchecked weeds sprouted wildly between the cracks in the pavements where overgrown and unruly front lawns had spilled over the remains of collapsed walls.
Schools are booting out record numbers of unruly pupils.
A few drops of either product, worked through your hair, tames unruly strands and adds significant shine.
Pictures showing unruly behaviour or empty benches might not enhance the reputation of the House.
Residents are urging estate agents to take control of unruly tenants who they claim are making their lives hell.
With cuticle scissors, trim unruly or longer hairs above the upper brow line.
Groups of enforcers roam the town armed with scissors to trim unruly hair. Times, Sunday Times
The wind blows away the thoughts, rolled up unruly time.
Headteachers will be given complete control over the expulsion of unruly pupils by December 1.
Having spent the past quarter century enforcing an uneasy peace between Indians and unruly frontiersmen, few army officers could have predicted otherwise. Between War and Peace
The unruly discourse with its fear mongering, name calling, and even occasional demonization is because the stakes really are high, our problems really serious and there are more voices than ever before vying to be heard -- no wonder there is so much yelling. Rabbi Irwin Kula: Gridlock Is Good
Anyone who has had to manage wayward or unruly livestock will know that the easiest way to do so is with food.
He said that the Jakarta-based club had no problem with further disciplining its unruly players.
It was not her long curls, her lovely figure, or full lips in a constant half smile, nor was it her gentle voice, unusual propriety, or sweet sincerity which held the unruly pirates in captivation; it was her eyes.
The Tories want to bring in ‘zero tolerance’ policing in an effort to give communities more confidence that they will be protected from crime and warn the unruly that their misdemeanours will not go unnoticed.
I feel like a dunce in this company, until I get talking to some of my mates in the group who share a lot of my frustrations and aspirations, and are a holy if unruly group.
I have wild, unruly hair that gets worse in high humidity. Times, Sunday Times
Details of the unruly behaviour emerged at a meeting of licensing officials at Camden council earlier this month. Times, Sunday Times
A young child out with her family was terrified by a couple of unruly dogs when they bounded up to her.
On May 7, 1849, an unruly mob hissed and interrupted the Macready's performance including pelting the poor actor with rotten eggs, potatoes, old shoes and a bottle of liquid which may have been something called asafetida, which stank. Archive 2007-08-01
His brown hair was an unruly mass of tangles and knots.
We urge law enforcement agencies to cage the erring or even unruly drivers to restore order on roads and in stations.
With his unruly hair and dark stubble, he always seems as though he's just leapt out of bed. Times, Sunday Times
She shook her unruly mane of red hair, attempting and failing to coax it into some semblance of order.
But this unruly, unforgettable play takes its unpredictable course to something that makes you feel afresh our powerlessness against time. Times, Sunday Times
His hair was limp and unruly, his once cheerful blue eyes were cold and distant, and he was gaunt and tired-looking from the burden he now had to carry.
Although not a particularly rough town it had its unruly inhabitants, as did all dock towns.
An unruly mob broke down police barricades and stormed the courtroom.
That's the rosy definition of my yard's unruly borders, where colorful annuals and self-seeded dill, parsley, and forget-me-not tumble together.
Make-up is simple - lip gloss, mascara and blusher - but my hair is unruly, so I'm in and out of the hairdressers more times than enough.
As I vigorously rubbed shampoo into my unruly auburn hair, a blast of cold air hit my spine. DEAD BEAT
A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
My hair didn't exactly look blow-dried in that swingy way it should, but it was definitely less unruly. Times, Sunday Times
So while a Hilfiger presentation can sometimes transform into an unruly party, a Nautica show remains sedate and serious.
Friends say that a death in the family had begun his downward spiral into increasingly unruly behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Even photinia, that most unruly of shrubs, is clipped into smooth curtains. The Seattle Times
Now 59, he retains a quiet, composed demeanor and a rapid-fire manner of speaking, but what was once an unruly shock of gray curls is now a straight corporate cut. “This Is Not Charity”
The trees were stately, an opulent mix of mature broadleaf and conifer marching alongside the water in an unruly column stretching to the end of Hillside Drive and beyond.
Families will be admitted, but unruly behaviour will result in warnings, then written warnings and finally ejection from the club. Times, Sunday Times
Joshua David has described the atmosphere he and his co-founder envisioned as "less like a park and more like a scruffy wilderness," but the results will appear unruly only to those who still think of public gardens as requiring Victorian carpet bedding — yellow begonias and red pelargonium geometrically composed and obsessively mulched. Up in the Park
She sat demurely, which was very unlike her usual loud and unruly self, and stared at the wall, barely blinking.
Deep lines incised his face beneath a mop of unruly gray hair; Spock put his age at about a hundred, perhaps a few years higher. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
The unruly Giant players in disheveled jerseys and beards scream into the clubhouse after hugging and cheering on the field and you hand out a pair of goggles and maybe you will have a beer after it calms down a bit. Colin Barnicle: Wearing Goggles at the End Is Good
Reaching out, he moved one unruly black curl away from her left eye and she smiled her thanks.
The only way to kurb this unruly mob is to use tear gas.
A small, lively man with limpid blue eyes and an unruly thatch of thinning white hair, Hill delighted participants in his workshop with his pithy one-liners and folksy aphorisms.
Nip off the leaves that are faded, prune in unruly shoots, see if any need re-potting. Gardening by Myself
The worst owners would be banned for life from keeping a dog and unruly animals would be destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
Wars will end, people of different religions will engage in celebratory mutual ambi-sexual dry-humping, and the world will become a real-life John Lennon song complete with unruly pubic bushes. The Secret to Success: Crawling Before You Can Walk
In Burgess's 1962 dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange, famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, the unruly youngster Alex is subjected to "the Ludovico Technique" by the crazed authorities.
I have wild, unruly hair that gets worse in high humidity. Times, Sunday Times
Scattered in front of this painting like an unruly audience were chair sculptures composed of armatures wrapped with everything from plaster bandages to chenille bedspreads bound with rope to endless rounds of thin copper wire.
If she was honest with herself her stick-thin frame did resemble that of a scarecrow, and her unruly blonde curls might be considered straw-like by some.
Details of the unruly behaviour emerged at a meeting of licensing officials at Camden council earlier this month. Times, Sunday Times
The school deserves praise for its initiative, and it's a far better means of improving behaviour than thrashing unruly children with the tawse.
Difeafed nature oftentimes breaks forth In ftrange. eruptions: oft the teeming earth Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and ytlCd By the imprifoning of unruly wind Within her womb •, which, for enlargement ftriving, The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes
Unsurprisingly, these rather unruly school students were engaged and excited. Times, Sunday Times
She smiled up at him, smoothing down the unruly cowlick that rested atop his mop of rakishly tousled brunette hair.
This piece is not one of his best, although the cellist showed incredible skill on the unruly violoncello, managing to coax the best possible tone in spite of the instrument's limitations.
He looped it around his unruly hair, then picked up the heavy wooden packsaddle, and followed Idalia outside. Tran Siberian
He had a shock of jet-black hair that tended to fall in unruly curls over his forehead no matter how hard Halle tried to keep it in trim. PAINT THE WIND
Police were deployed to control unruly shoppers as the United States' major sales of the year got underway.
The only way to curb this unruly mob is to use tear gas.
Before I knew it my tummy boiled and bubbled and reacted in the generally unruly way that neglected tummies do.
Unruly youngsters riding motorised scooters are making their residents' lives a misery.
I caution members that they are becoming very unruly, and it is leading to disorder.
Student teachers cannot be taught in a lecture hall how to control unruly pupils. Times, Sunday Times
Wind whipped my long, unruly black hair into my eyes, and I spat it out as I climbed into the driver's seat of my father's brand new Lexus.
I have to repent for judging the size of my thighs and nose and lips and the unruly hair. Christianity Today
His hair showed an unruly tendency to curl, flipping out at his ears and twisting in tangles.
Someone unruly was ungovernable or disorderly; the modern sense is a weakening of this.
Friends say that a death in the family had begun his downward spiral into increasingly unruly behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Due to his unruly behaviour, which included rudeness and abusiveness, the management was forced to ban him from using these facilities.
Large gold hoops dangled from her ears to tangle in her unruly hair.
Serum actually works very well in taming unruly strands.
Teacher training courses are highly academic but offer little advice about unruly pupils. Times, Sunday Times
His face was roughened by days outdoors in the chill spring, his hair more unruly than ever.
Face an unruly ocean with a surfboard and see how smug your smile is then. Times, Sunday Times
They cry out for ‘a ‘system’ of some kind, where order could be imposed on nature's unruly endlessness.’
That would certainly suit the Jaguar management's book and has less potential for political embarrassment than an unruly hostile bid.
These plants should be kept under control by cutting back any unruly or unwanted stems after flowering has ended. Times, Sunday Times
Barnes allegedly behaved in an unruly and disruptive way during the flight.
What is the best way to inform her of her unruly behaviour and make her realise what she is doing? Times, Sunday Times
an unruly class
And they will also be scrutinised on how they handle unruly pupils. The Sun
Use your hands to spread the potato slices out so that they overlap like unruly fish scales, but are not more than 1 or 2 layers thick.
This usually unruly child started behaving himself at school.
The clampdown follows six months of seriously bad behaviour by the more unruly pupils. Times, Sunday Times
It remains unclear, however, how the promised ‘zero tolerance’ and new aggressiveness with ‘unruly elements’ will make a difference against crime that has been hallmarked by stealth and guile.
What is the best way to inform her of her unruly behaviour and make her realise what she is doing? Times, Sunday Times
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. The Woman's Advocate, Vol. I, No. III.
He had an unruly mess of light brown hair and dark chocolate brown eyes hidden behind thin golden wire glasses.
Gabrielle stretched as she got out of the car, trying her best to pat down her unruly hair, but remained unsuccessful.

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