Example sentences for: toppled

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

  • 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.

  • On the one hand, you have George Quincy Bush--and any romantic view of his dad as a guy unjustly toppled by a womanizing schemer is historical revisionism, pure and simple (remember the last recession?

  • In the fall of 2001, the U.S.-led international coalition and its Afghan allies toppled the Taliban and ended the regime's protection of al Qaeda.

  • No important decisions of state could be made without consulting the Oracle here, and when the Colossus of Rhodes was toppled in an earthquake the people of that city-state in the Aegean left it where it lay after advice from the Oracle not to rebuild it.

  • The LAT leads its story with the big picture: Hashimoto will become the third Asian leader in less than a year to be toppled from power by the region's economic crisis.


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