Example sentences for: topple

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

  • Now three different companies, ITT was once one real company, the kind that could topple a democratically elected government in Chile without blinking an eye.

  • "Key figures in the Pentagon are proposing that the White House consider a full-scale armored invasion of Serbia in which Nato would capture Belgrade, topple Milosevic and haul the leaders of his regime before a war crimes tribunal," wrote the paper's Washington correspondent.

  • If we attack militarily, we must use ground troops: As the Gulf War proved, air power alone won't cripple Iraq's forces and won't topple Saddam.

  • A piece on the Los Angeles Times front offers something of an answer: The Clinton military strategy is "containment-plus," the plan to use force whenever needed--not just this one time--combined with financial incentives to motivate some indigenous Iraqi force to rise out of the chaos thus created to topple Saddam.

  • In Johannesburg yesterday, rebel leaders who tried to topple the Congolese government of Laurent Kabila, drawing five countries into a war in the process, signed a cease-fire.


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