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Example sentences for: uprising

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One of the best things about the Powell revival is that it has been pretty much spontaneous--a sort of mass uprising of support.
The paper said that Germans marked the event "in an almost gloomy mood, with many Berliners angry at the dominant role played by politicians in the commemoration of what was a popular uprising."
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.
A heroic uprising in 1943, led by poorly armed Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, lasted a month until Nazi reinforcements annihilated it and reported back to Germany that “Warsaw’s Jewish quarter has ceased to exist.”
' 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.