Sentence examples for a rabble of from inspiring English sources

Instead, they come across like a rabble of excitable schoolkids.

Parts of the country are now ruled by a rabble of equally conservative or lawless warlords.

In Sierra Leone a rabble of drugged-up teenagers with Kalashnikovs were terrorising an entire country.

It's lunchtime, and a rabble of mallards hangs about the shoppers' benches, hoping for bread.

"The Algerian army is not a rabble of barbarians and murderers".

The second night, "a rabble of combustible professional killers" went on a rampage.

In the park, she is menaced by "a rabble / Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor".

But it is one thing to bomb a rabble collection of fighters, another to bomb a regular army with an anti-aircraft capability.

He is currently preparing a New York exhibition of Picasso's last works - paintings of a muddled rabble of musketeers, whores, thieves and beggars, with faces scavenged from Rembrandt, Velázquez and Goya.

Bloodied and outgunned, the rebels, a leaderless rabble of university students, mechanics, shopkeepers, and Army reservists, had been falling back ever since.

Last year, it created the UPC, which is Hema-based, only to see it switch its allegiance to Rwanda.Uganda then befriended a resentful rabble of Lendu militias.