Example sentences for: uprising

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

  • Finally, a full-scale uprising led by a peasant general, Zhuyuanzhang (Chu Yüan-chang), routed the Yuan rulers.

  • In 1847, a savage uprising known as the Caste War saw Mayan rebels massacre white settlers and take control of nearly two-thirds of the peninsula.

  • He advised his readers to read that book "against a background of thoughts about the Hungarian uprising [of 1956] and its repression."

  • It’s an extensive exhibition and popular with school-children, but the section dedicated to the 1956 uprising is the most memorable for older visitors.

  • In 1927 it was the setting for the first Communist-led armed uprising against the Nationalist forces.


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