Sentence examples for revolt from high-quality English sources.

• The Peasants' Revolt was a popular uprising.

• If Ramush is acquitted, the north will revolt.

• He is known for planning a major slave revolt.

• 20 July 1936: Nationalists, led by rogue generals, instigate a revolt in the Spanish zone of Morocco and in the Canary Islands.

• A slave revolt in New York City in 1741 caused heavy property damage.

• A slave revolt in New York City in 1741 caused heavy property damage.

• Second Jewish Revolt, (ad 132–135), Jewish rebellion against Roman rule in Judaea.

• In May 1805 a revolt broke out in Cairo against the Ottoman viceroy, Khūrshīd Pasha.

Use revolt in a sentence.

• Alfonso crushed a Muslim revolt in 1252 and a revolt by nobles in 1254.

• The revolt failed, but it provided an inspiration to succeeding generations of dissidents.

• A revolt by some liberal-minded army officers in 1825 (the Decembrist revolt) was put down with ease, and…

• The revolt ended the false belief that slaves were either happy with their lives as they were or were too submissive to rebel.

• Black protests against the new order ranged from genteel lobbying and passive resistance to armed rural revolt, strikes, and mass mobilization.

• Britain would support this revolt in return for recognition of Arab independence - although the exact territory that would become independent was not made clear.

• By concentrating on the years leading up to the Decembrist revolt, and not the revolt itself, Tolstoy shows us how and why the reformist movement occurred.

• To give the revolt a legal basis, the fiction was invented that it had been a revolt not against the king but against his evil advisers, particularly the governor.

revolt sentence examples

• If Peking's version of the revolt is so transparently false, its claims that the suppression of the revolt has been applauded by other central Asian peoples are likewise discredited.

• Notice that although she does not need to know that the leading clique actually revolts to be willing to revolt, that information is needed to ensure that the threshold 5 clique does revolt, and hence that it is safe for her to join the revolt.

• The main events of his long rule were the war with Sparta that ended with a peace favourable to the Persians; the revolt and loss to the empire of Egypt; the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger, brother of the king; and the uprising known as the revolt of the satraps.

• …the white electorate after the Rand Revolt of 1922, when the SAP-led government used artillery and aircraft to crush a revolt by white miners (protesting that they were to be replaced by lower-paid black miners) and their supporters on the Witwatersrand; more than 200 lives were lost.