How to Use coup d'état in a Sentence

coup d'état

noun

• Lucia left Chile as a young adult in the 1970s, during the Chilean coup d'etat.
  — Kate Scott, Chicago Reader, 25 Oct. 2017
• In August 1991, hard-liners in the government launched an abortive coup d'etat.
  — William Welch and Jorge Ortiz, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
• The Great does an excellent job of tempering the gravity of a coup d'etat with the sheer ridiculousness of the Russian court.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 2 July 2020
• The Great does an excellent job of tempering the gravity of a coup d'etat with the sheer ridiculousness of the Russian court.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• The Great does an excellent job of tempering the gravity of a coup d'etat with the sheer ridiculousness of the Russian court.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• The Great does an excellent job of tempering the gravity of a coup d'etat with the sheer ridiculousness of the Russian court.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• The Great does an excellent job of tempering the gravity of a coup d'etat with the sheer ridiculousness of the Russian court.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• The Great does an excellent job of tempering the gravity of a coup d'etat with the sheer ridiculousness of the Russian court.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• The Great does an excellent job of tempering the gravity of a coup d'etat with the sheer ridiculousness of the Russian court.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• The Great does an excellent job of tempering the gravity of a coup d'etat with the sheer ridiculousness of the Russian court.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• The Great does an excellent job of tempering the gravity of a coup d'etat with the sheer ridiculousness of the Russian court.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
• A lot of crazy things have to happen for the Colts to make it to January, including Ralph Nader seizing the presidency in a bloody coup d'etat.
  — Nat Newell, The Indianapolis Star, 10 July 2020
• The 84-year-old former leader was overthrown in a coup d'etat in September by a military junta that now leads the West African country.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
• The African Union typically suspends the membership of a country after a coup d'etat.
  — Krista Larson, ajc, 7 Sep. 2021
• It is often cited by historians as the only violent coup d'etat in the United States.
  — Delano Massey, CNN, 7 Nov. 2021
• May 2014 saw a coup d'etat and since, the country has been living under military rule, with no elections, civilians tried in military court, and a ban on even discussing politics.
  — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 9 Apr. 2018
• In his remarks Monday evening, Erdogan framed the economic crisis as another foreign plot against Turkey, comparing it to a 2016 coup d'etat attempt that failed to push him from power.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• Morales’ supporters have likened his resignation to a coup d'etat – an assertion echoed by some Washington lawmakers.
  — Fox News, 13 Nov. 2019
• The situation escalated last month, when a military coup d'etat attributed to forces loyal to Bashir failed, resulting in most of the officers involved being arrested.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
• Mutinous soldiers detained President Alpha Conde on Sunday after hours of heavy gunfire rang out near the presidential palace, then announced on state television that the government had been dissolved in an apparent coup d'etat.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2021