Example sentences for: uprising

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

  • Support for the Franco-led nationalist uprising came from monarchists, conservatives, and the right-wing Falangist organization, as well as the Roman Catholic Church, while liberals, socialists, Communists, and anarchists sided with the government.

  • 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."

  • The first piece cautions him against alienating his core supporters, but the other predicts that his regime will survive the current uprising.

  • The protest snowballed into a popular uprising and within days a provisional Hungarian government, led by Imre Nagy, had withdrawn from the Warsaw Pact.

  • Another WP front-pager reports that China has arrested over 4,000 Beijing residents in its efforts to suppress the Falun Gong sect, making this the largest government crackdown since the days of the Tiananmen Square uprising.


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