Uprising

"Uprising" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The government acted boldly to deal with the outlaw uprising.

His analysis of the causes of the uprising was correct.

Their savage cruelty against God's people was beyond horrific, resulting in the Maccabean uprising.

This is a mass uprising.

The uprising was brutally suppressed.

The uprising was violently suppressed.

The uprising failed to achieve its objectives.

The uprising was crushed.

The Nika Riots constituted a sixth-century Turkish uprising against the Roman Emperor Justinian.

Soon the disenfranchised, downtrodden laymen started a full out uprising, seeking to tear out the remnants of their oppression.

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WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.

But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down, terrorized the population, and culminated in the vehicular homicide of a local leftist woman

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