Example sentences for: uprising

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

  • China suppressed commemoration of the 10 th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising.

  • On the lookout for any contagiously progressive movement, the Austrians helped Bourbon King Ferdinand of Naples crush an 1821 revolt for constitutional monarchy and foiled a similar uprising in Piedmont.

  • 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 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.

  • "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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