Example sentences for: toppled

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

  • Seven years later, the opposition of radical forces toppled Primo de Rivera from power.

  • South of the Roman Forum, a slope leads up to the Palatine Hill, Rome’s legendary birthplace and today a romantic garden, dotted with toppled columns among the wild flowers and spiny acanthus shrubs.

  • He lived in the stable prosperity of the Venetian Republic and died before the revolutionary upheavals of the last quarter of the 18 th century that toppled so many hierarchies.

  • In October 1918, Hungary’s last king, Károly IV, was toppled by what is now called the Bourgeois Democratic Revolution.

  • The Constitution grew out of a convention held in 1787 by a cabal of elite politicians, including James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, who decided that the nation's founding document, the Articles of Confederation, was too weak to hold the . But many citizens eyed the Constitutional Convention of 1787 warily, worrying that a strengthened federal authority would metamorphose into precisely the sort of tyranny they had just toppled.


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