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"Revolt" in a Sentence (21 examples)
It will take a long time to suppress the revolt.
The army was called to suppress the revolt.
The army had the revolt well in hand.
But for the support of the public, the President could not have survived the revolt.
On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.
A revolt broke out.
The revolt was crushed.
People rose in revolt against the king.
In 1911, a revolt broke out.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.
Our diſcontented Counties doe reuolt
Your brother revolts me!
I shall be told, that this abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.
1870, John Morley, Condorcet (published in the Fortnightly Review To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.
The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
The foring clouds into fad fhowres y molt; / So to her yold the flames, and did their force reuolt.
And ſtill revolt when truth would ſet them free.
His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.
— It's a revolt? — No, Sire, it's a revolution...
The first recorded use of “insurrection” in English, indeed, is in parliamentary papers describing the armed revolt led by Jack Cade in 1450, who marched on London to protest against the corruption of Henry VI’s government. […] Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell Lowell wrote: “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.” Had he lived to the year 2021, he might have changed his mind.
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