How to Use putsch in a Sentence

putsch

noun

• But all of that assumes that a putsch does succeed, and this is dubious.
  — Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
• The leader of that putsch, Prayuth Chan-ocha, is still prime minister.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2020
• Neither the outcome of the putsch nor the fate of the resistance is preordained.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2021
• Gulen denies involvement in the putsch, in which some 250 people were killed.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
• This may be the biggest obstacle to a boardroom putsch, and a reason that hedge funds seldom get very far in tech takeovers.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 4 Mar. 2020
• Protests erupted within a week after the putsch and have continued almost daily in the six months since.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2021
• The putsch came less than three months later, and the country’s top leaders were quickly rounded up and imprisoned.
  — Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
• The generals who led the putsch said that protecting the palace from critics was one of their major reasons for doing so.
  — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• The number of lèse-majesté cases has exceeded 100 since the putsch.
  — Feliz Solomon, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• Mali and Guinea are also governed by military regimes following putsches in recent years.
  — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• Even before the putsch, the country was almost entirely closed because of the coronavirus.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• Opponents decried the dismissal of the government and the freezing of parliament as a putsch.
  — Washington Post, 25 July 2021
• The same gesture was adopted after the putsch in Myanmar, the leitmotif of a protest movement millions strong.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
• And while the coup-plotters allowed supporters to mass in the streets, many Nigeriens bitterly oppose their putsch.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• But any trace of American involvement in the putsch had been wiped from the report, causing historians to call it a fraud.
  — Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
• For all the planning that went into the putsch, the generals seem to have been utterly unprepared for the breadth and depth of resistance against them.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• The 15-member bloc has taken a hard line against Mali since the putsch, shutting borders and halting financial flows.
  — Katarina Hoije, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• In the face of public demonstrations against them, their putsch soon failed, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union itself.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• That led to his ouster by another putsch in August 1983 headed by his own defense minister.
  — Sonia Perez D., USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2018
• Fewer foreign investors will want to risk putting their money in a country where a putsch imperils contracts inked with the civilian authority.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
• That can happen only through an internal putsch or an organized popular uprising.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2026
• The coup against the state could be read as an anticolonial revolution, but the alt-right interprets it as a nationalist putsch against a pacifist state.
  — Shaan Amin, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
• Turkey’s president already had a taste for hounding opponents long before the abortive putsch of 2016.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has celebrated the putsch and offered to help the country’s new leaders.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• Calls by foreign governments and human rights groups to free political prisoners have gone unanswered more than 100 days after the putsch.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 16 May 2021
• That was the narrative that followed the putsches in Mali and Burkina Faso, and the same story seems to be playing out in Niger.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Going suddenly from Chernenko to Gorbachev, and then the putsch, the tanks in Moscow, the first nightclubs in Moscow, the first trips abroad.
  — Emmanuel Carrère, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The maximally stupid outcome—which, by that very fact, seems all too probable—is that Trump gets bored of the whole affair and stops the air strikes after a putsch has been discovered, but before it’s succeeded.
  — Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
• The same month, the army orchestrated its latest coup, one of a dozen successful putsches carried out since Thailand abandoned absolute monarchy in 1932.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• The dramatic putsch ended Saturday when Prigozhin reached a deal with the Kremlin and halted the convoy about 120 miles south of Moscow.
  — Time, 26 June 2023