unruliness

Example Sentences

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To manage this unruliness in the play’s first half, the director, Chay Yew, over-relies on the same gimmick: Interlopers scurry out from the right or left side of the audience in a continuous loop.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

Jessie hung signs in her shops that warned customers against any unruliness.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2023

To be sure, the wrangling of parties, the broken campaign promises, the sheer unruliness of it all, can turn people off.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2023

Becker says the plants are easier to restrain if you don’t cut them; otherwise the regrowth seems to double the plant’s size and unruliness, but one or two in your yard always draws compliments.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2022

I sensed already that he was more at home with the unruliness of the world than I was, more willing to let it all in without distress.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama