Example sentences for: revolts

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

  • Crete prospered greatly under the 465 years of Venetian occupation (1204–1669), although there were revolts by the native population, which were brutally put down.

  • Food riots broke out in Lombardy, revolts in Tuscany, and southern peasants demanded a share of common land.

  • The army had to crush revolts in Sicily and Naples against heavy taxes and conscription for Spain’s wars in northern Europe.

  • The revolts of the Fronde forced Mazarin, Anne, and the boy-king to flee from Paris in 1649.

  • Among the political exiles flocking to Piedmont was a veteran of the earlier revolts, Giuseppe Garibaldi.


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