Example sentences for: riots

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

  • Before an African-American congregation in South Central Los Angeles, he discards his feel-good paean to the new millennium and tells his stunned audience that he hasn't returned to their neighborhood since the riots because the photo op has passed and that no Democrat will ever pay attention to them because they don't give any money to campaigns.

  • Some of the expressions originated during riots, or thrill killings, or both.

  • The LAT goes with Jakarta student street riots over a just-passed bill that has raised fears of a coup because it bestows new emergency powers on the Indonesian military.

  • Another member of the panel's staff said, "This is not the Kerner Commission," referring to the panel appointed by President Johnson after the urban riots of the 1960s.

  • This is not the standard newspaper practice regarding riots.


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