How to Use Arab Spring in a Sentence

Arab Spring

noun

• This was after the Arab Spring.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026
• But, as the Arab Spring taught us, there is no guarantee that what comes after will, in fact, be better.
  — Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
• Twitter was credited with fuelling the Arab Spring.
  — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
• The specter of the Arab Spring, where dictators fell across the region only for chaos to follow, looms large.
  — Paul Wallace, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026
• He was inspired by the 2008 recession and the Arab Spring.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
• Syria had been plunged into a civil war in the wake of the Arab Spring protests of 2011.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
• The site played a key role in the Arab Spring while also being the birthplace of the Milkshake Duck meme.
  — Callum Booth, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• Simply put, any attempt to produce a new version of the Mubarak regime is doomed to fail as the Arab Spring has clearly shown.
  — Muhammad Mansour, Foreign Affairs, 18 May 2016
• Around the same time Epstein was helping Abdulhak with his son, the Arab Spring reached Yemen.
  — Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
• Almost five years after the Arab Spring rocked the city, Cairo is welcoming back a luxury hotel.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2026
• The Arab Spring uprisings reached Syria in 2011 and blazed up into civil war.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
• While other Arab Spring nations descended into conflict, chaos or military rule, Tunisia stood out as bright spot.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
• Both were arrested and sentenced to death for crimes committed as teenagers during the Arab Spring, rights groups and people close to their families said.
  — Muhammad Darwish, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
• The overthrow of Saddam served both to inspire and limit public support for Arab Spring uprisings a few years later.
  — Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2021
• Her system predicted Cuba’s first cholera epidemic in decades and early Arab Spring riots.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 May 2015
• Images and videos quickly made the rounds on social media, reminiscent of the Arab Spring of 2011.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Optimists pointed to the remarkable events of the Arab Spring protests as proof that the Internet could help spread democracy and freedom.
  — ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
• Also, imposition of democracy from outside proved murky as in Afghanistan and in the countries that underwent the Arab Spring.
  — Debidatta A. Mahapatra, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
• An example of this is the Anonymous hacktivist group supporting WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring.
  — Carlos Morales, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011-12 owe much of their origin to a youth bulge in the Middle East.
  — John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
• In 2011, the pro-democracy Arab Spring protests spiraled into proxy wars that spread through much of the Middle East.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• Even in the early days of the Arab Spring that tension sparked intense debates over how far Washington should go to encourage the pro-democracy protests.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2023
• During the Arab Spring of 2011, protesters throughout the Middle East took to the streets to demand change.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• After the Arab Spring protests erupted in several countries in 2011, the group took control of the province of Saada.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• After the Arab Spring, there was massive cultural destruction happening in the Middle East.
  — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 7 May 2026
• Work was later disrupted by the 2011 Arab Spring, before resuming in full in 2016.
  — Ayat Al-Tawy, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2025
• The uprisings moved through the region as the Arab Spring ignited, and tens of millions of frustrated residents went online to coordinate.
  — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
• The French Revolution followed a period of inflation, and in this century, the Arab Spring was triggered by a spike in food prices.
  — Isabella M. Weber, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2025
• This shift was shaped by three decades of upheaval—the collapse of the Soviet Union, the September 11 attacks, and the Arab Spring.
  — Kamran Bokhari, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• The early phase of the Arab Spring seemed to vindicate their optimistic analysis; the subsequent descent of Syria and Libya into civil war, not so much.
  — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017