The riotous crowd of lunchgoers sits at steel-topped tables on plywood chairs; rock music pours from speakers.

Her mind was a riotous crowd of dissenting, unhappy people who would not let her sleep.

On 4 June the Essex County Parliamentary committee in Chelmsford was taken prisoner by a riotous crowd.

His growing band of admirers, who gathered outside, were accustomed to hearing a great tumult from inside the walls, like riotous crowds fighting.

Large, riotous crowds would gather and pelt the condemned with rotten fruit and vegetables and stones.

In 512, Celer was sent to Constantinople, along with Patricius, to pacify the riotous Chalcedonian crowds, but ultimately failed.

Better rubber bullets than the plain kind against riotous crowds; if they seem hypocritical, isn't hypocrisy what La Rochefoucauld called "the homage vice pays to virtue"?

However, riotous crowds prevented it from being removed from Westminster Abbey.

She was appointed as Field Commissioner throughout Great Britain from 1888 to 1891, courageously facing riotous crowds.

It was surging from below like a riotous crowd, raging, frothing and boiling.