Definition: 1. A state of agitation or turbulent change or development. 2. A feeling of restless agitation.
Use 'unrest' in a sentence:
1. But the unrest showed no sign of abating.
2. The security forces counter-attacked the following day and quelled the unrest.
3. The security forces counterattacked the following day and quelled the unrest.
4. Many are forced from home by natural disaster, war or civil unrest.
5. There are signs of political unrest in the country.
6. Moreover, migrant workers are only one potential source of unrest.
7. A center of power; a center of unrest.
8. But when bread is hard to get, that, too, causes unrest.
9. Because the law changes, will cause social instability even unrest.
10. Social unrest, never far below the surface in Brazil, has erupted over the last few days.
11. This spirit of unrest touches every one.
12. Anybody can observe the growing global unrest at this world order.
13. Police were working to calm the unrest.
14. And the feared waves of civil unrest never came.
15. Will 2010 be a year of social unrest?
16. The unrest has cast a pall over what is usually a day of national rejoicing.
17. Unrest has spilt over into areas outside the city.
18. The army is threatening to take over if civil unrest continues.
19. It might therefore help to indicate where high food prices could turn into political unrest.
20. The government failed to stifle the unrest.
21. A statistic could cause social unrest?
22. Social unrest is a big unknown.
23. The unrest continues to spread.
24. It was too sensitive and could cause social unrest.
25. Inflation has traditionally been associated with civil unrest in China.
26. There are growing signs of more broadly-based popular unrest.
27. This issue is creating unrest on the backbenches.
28. Life in human extremely unrest scheler studied the years to come.
29. At present, the international financial situation remains unrest.
30. Influenced by social unrest, education of that times was instable.
31. This has already led to some unrest.
32. A faltering economy and a recent wave of labour unrest have affected the new party's popularity.
33. The unrest erupted into revolution.
34. One day, when Epimetheus was out, she lifted the lid and out it came unrest and war, plague and sickness, theft and violence, grief sorrow, and all the other evils. The human world was hence to experience these evils.
35. It was a year of unrest among the country's many nationalities.
36. Troops eventually quelled the unrest.
37. As you know, there have been reports of unrest in India and the prospects for the rupee look pretty gloomy.
38. They accused him of fomenting political unrest.
39. He is acutely conscious that this transition will bring with it the risk of social unrest.
40. The Portuguese Vasco da Gama's Voyage around southern Africa to India took place at the end of the fifteenth century, and by 1502 the trans-Abrabian caravan route had been cut off by political unrest.
41. A period of unrest followed the president's resignation.
42. The real danger is civil unrest in the east of the country.
43. There is growing unrest in the south of the country.
44. After the recent unrest there is an edgy calm in the capital.
45. The unrest capped a weekend of right-wing attacks on foreigners.
46. There could be more unrest, but I wouldn't exaggerate the problems.
