Example sentences for: topple

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

  • The first phase of our post-9/11 efforts rightly included military action to topple the Taliban and pursue al Qaeda.

  • In the Middle East, Iraqi writer Abdelamir al-Rakabi warned in the Pan-Arab al-Quds al-Arabi that if NATO's airstrikes lead to the capitulation of Milosevic, Iraq should prepare for an all-out Anglo-American drive to topple Saddam Hussein.

  • Last week they seized Kisangani , Zaire's third-largest city, and may soon topple him.

  • After all, in this piece the car-home-and-fire salesman turned global strategist describes the Gulf War as if it were a model of Clausewitzian clarity concerning ultimate goals and acceptable means, forgetting in the process that at the end of that war, the Bush/Powell/Schwarzkopf axis internally disagreed about war issues that had never been articulated for the American people: Should the U.S. destroy the Iraqi military, invade Baghdad, or topple Hussein even after Iraq was repulsed from Kuwait?

  • On September 10, Hadley gathered the deputies to finalize their threephase, multiyear plan to pressure and perhaps ultimately topple theTaliban leadership.


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