How to Use revolution in a Sentence

revolution

noun
  • The king knew that there was a threat of revolution.
  • The group started a revolution.
  • The period of revolution of the Earth around the Sun is equal to one year.
  • This new theory could cause a revolution in elementary education.
  • The Earth makes one revolution on its axis in about 24 hours.
  • This motor operates at a speed of 5,000 revolutions per minute.
  • The past two decades have been a time of peaceful revolution in the movies.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The plastic seats along the sides of the cars were red, the color of revolution.
    William Neuman, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2022
  • There will be calls for the overhaul of the squad, for a new coach, for revolution.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
  • In the face of unbridled fear and anger, joy is the revolution.
    Jessamyn Stanley, SELF, 7 Sep. 2020
  • And so far, in the robopet revolution, cute seems to cut it.
    Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 1 July 2019
  • Why not start your revolution with the biggest name in the stable?
    Sam Smith, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The open source revolution has been carried on the backs of some very weary people.
    Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
  • But now the Bay Area is at the center of the fake meat revolution.
    Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • And who, these days, doesn’t want to be part of a revolution?
    Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 8 June 2019
  • At the time, many on the new left thought a revolution was imminent.
    John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The band has been begging for revolution for three decades.
    Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The question now is how much support the revolution has lost with each round.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Put an end to the dinner debate and join the air frying revolution.
    Adam Schubak, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2018
  • What is new in the last few years is the DNA revolution.
    Robert Plomin, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The electric car revolution is not a shift that will happen overnight.
    Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Here, his focus turns to the leaders of this new revolution.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 14 June 2022
  • The real revolution in the way we video chat is driven by software.
    Lauren Goode, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Of course, this is not how the digital revolution played out.
    Kate Eichhorn, WIRED, 8 July 2019
  • Much has been made about the treatment of the press in this age of protest, of dissent, daresay of revolution.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 4 June 2020
  • The legacy of change and revolution in this country has happened by force.
    Clarissa Brooks, Teen Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Earth’s rotation gives us the day, its revolution around the sun gives us the year, and its dance with the moon gives us the month.
    Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 22 May 2019
  • Those who are alive today are caught in the midst of another revolution of ideas.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2021
  • This is the revolution that Bernie Sanders and his ilk have worked toward.
    WSJ, 15 June 2021
  • But Rigolon said the movement doesn’t need to be a revolution.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021

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