How to Use unrest in a Sentence

unrest

noun
  • The country has experienced years of civil unrest.
  • Amid the unrest, the mine shut down.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Not be afraid of unrest, to kind of sit in the questions.
    — Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Who runs Iran, and what is the regime doing about the unrest?
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The unrest, now in its eighth day, turned deadly at the weekend.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The threat of civil unrest hung over the final days of voting.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The good start aside, the conditions that have led to fan unrest remain.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2024
  • More than a week of protests and civil unrest followed the teenager's death.
    — Selina Guevara, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • What does the unrest in the Strait of Hormuz mean for oil and gas prices?
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Last summer, there was all kinds of unrest, and Isak wasn’t immune.
    — Harry De Cosemo, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • As night fell over Kathmandu, the city's streets still bore the marks of unrest.
    — Sonal Nain, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But there was no cultural unrest.
    — Bob Ehrlich, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2026
  • There was no widespread civil unrest.
    — Jonathan Portes, Time, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The world will have to do more to prevent hunger and the risk of unrest that soaring food prices could trigger.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 May 2022
  • But his presidency soon got bogged down in unrest.
    — ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • About 3,000 people were killed in the unrest.
    — Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The shooting sparked days of violent protests and unrest.
    — Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The unrest was sparked by a brutal knife attack on Monday.
    — Joanne Stocker, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • The nation was wracked by food and fuel shortages as labor unrest.
    — Town & Country, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Dozens of states called in the National Guard to help quell the unrest.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Human rights groups say thousands of protesters have been killed in the unrest.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Ramaphosa said security forces were on high alert to respond to any unrest.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
  • That was not enough to quell fan unrest at United, however.
    — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
  • In Harlem, dismay turned to unrest, and violence broke out on the streets.
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • There was unrest in the ranks amid suspicion that the creative teams had lost all control of the purse strings.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But many small businesses were destroyed or damaged in the unrest.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2021
  • There generally is roster unrest when a coach leaves a school.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The regime is resorting to massacres to suppress the unrest.
    — Shahrnush Parsipur, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Seismic unrest can be a sign that a volcano is waking up, but the full story is much more complex.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The controversial shooting led to days of unrest and protests.
    — Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026

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