Example sentences for: uprising

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

  • ' A prison riot is not a penile, but a penal uprising; and erections, unless some subtle word play about painfulness or punishment is intended, are not penal but penile.

  • More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris.

  • "" compares the uprising to civil war and the fall of the Iron Curtain, but the Iranian newspaper Neshat argues that revolution is "neither possible nor desirable."

  • The table of contents on the sleeve omits the Dublin segment, even though the speaker is very much there, in his recollections of the 1916 uprising, Lloyd George, the Black and Tan, as well as bits and pieces of his own life's history.

  • The most memorable incident occurred in 1868 in the mountain town of Lares, when government forces crushed an uprising of secessionists, killing or jailing the insurgents, and many innocent victims.


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