Example sentences for: uprising

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

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

  • "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)

  • Several Arab commentators referred to the repression of the student protests as "Iran's Tiananmen Square," and the Pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi said Monday in an editorial that the uprising was reminiscent of the student revolt in Indonesia that led to the overthrow of the Suharto regime.

  • The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after the Tibetans' failed uprising against the Chinese communists, who had taken over in 1951.

  • An uprising spread against the Ranas, and Prime Minister Mohan Shumshere Rana resigned in 1951.


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