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Example sentences for: riot

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

Thirty people who participated in a riot in the Tanzanian capital were charged with unlawful assembly and procession and malicious damage to property.
The department has stocked up on pepper spray and smoke bombs and has given additional riot training to 45 officers, alarming many Hartford residents, tensely awaiting a prosecutor's decision about whether to charge a white officer who fatally shot a black 14-year-old in the back.
It's a virtuoso shootout, a riot of angles--the villains depicted in whispers, scudding shadows, flashes of body parts.
Newspapers and commentators solemnly observe that this riot of negative ads and name-calling has cost $40 million (roughly $25 million from D'Amato and the Republican Party, the balance from Schumer and the Democrats).
' A prison riot is not a penile, but a penal uprising; and erections, unless some subtle word play about painfulness or punishment is intended, are not penal but penile.