unruly

Example Sentences

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It was Bell Labs’ responsibility, in other words, to create technologies for designing, expanding and improving an unruly communications network of cables and microwave links and glass fibers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

The other stays raw — bright, fresh, slightly unruly.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

A supreme court ruling reportedly issued Tuesday afternoon appears to have blocked the post-mortems, but not before unruly protest scenes broke out on Tuesday in Jerusalem and other Israeli cities, according to police.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

The judgement was delivered after Kanu had been forcibly removed from the courtroom for unruly behaviour.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

She rolled up the poster slowly, securing it with one of the elastic bands she always wore around her wrist for tying back her thick, unruly hair, streaked here and there with henna.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri