Example sentences for: overthrown

How can you use “overthrown” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And a confluent NYT editorial concludes Hussein cannot be overthrown without an American invasion and occupation.

  • The region’s titular autonomy was upheld until 1910, when the monarchy itself was overthrown.

  • Despite his attempts to quell the extremists, Robespierre was overthrown and guillotined in the counterattack of the propertied classes.

  • Those in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen were eventually overthrown by secular nationalist revolutionaries.

  • When Boris was at De Witt Clinton High School in New York, in the '30s, his history teacher once remarked that in February 1917, Alexander Kerensky had made the Russian Revolution and was soon after overthrown by Lenin.


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