Example sentences for: uprising

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

  • Gilberto Guevara Niebla was arguably the single most important student leader of the Mexican student uprising of 1968--the uprising that was finally put down in a massacre by the Mexican army in October 1968.

  • Or you can purchase a two-volume account of the Sorbonne uprising in Paris, compressed into a tidy 1,311 pages.

  • Václav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990.

  • Jewish toughness was seen in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis and in the sacrifices of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman in Mississippi in 1964.

  • "Albanians themselves were unsure whether to call the violence a civil war, a revolution, a popular uprising or just plain chaos," said the New York Times . (3/17)


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