rabble

Example Sentences

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From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2024

United, in the sharpest of contrasts, were a shambles – a rabble.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024

Loud mouths and rabble rousers where always the most respected and received the most attention from the whole community.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2023

In a Catch-22 practice, such people were rarely nominated, because the clubs’ reputations discouraged members from suggesting candidates who would surely be rejected, and members didn’t want to come across as rabble rousers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2023

Home, home—a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley