How to Use uprising in a Sentence

uprising

noun

• The government quickly put down the uprising.
• But the uprising is very much on the minds of the people who live here.
  — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2023
• In the film, Ernest must save his town from a troll uprising.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• Dahomey obliquely plants the seed for such an uprising in the years to come.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
• The replica of the Amistad — the ship that was the site of an uprising of captive Africans in 1839 — will be open for free tours.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2022
• All of that indicates that the uprising in Iran has a global side to it.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
• Early in the uprising, Masri's home in Homs was known a safe haven.
  — Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
• Figueroa was convinced that Hijar, Padres and some of the colonists were behind the uprising.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2022
• Chickie’s not the only king who falls to an uprising in this episode.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
• The uprising in Iran and the war in Ukraine are, on the surface, very different conflicts.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
• An uprising of such inmates was a few short years away.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• The Western response to the uprising in Libya in 2011 made matters worse.
  — Frederic Wehrey, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
• The English reacted to the news of the uprising with horror.
  — Peter C. Mancall, Time, 22 Mar. 2022
• That is, until the uprising at the end of season one after the hosts become self-aware.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2022
• The uprising failed: either the tanks didn’t arrive on schedule or the submarines surfaced in the wrong place.
  — Oleh Sentsov, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2023
• He was jailed multiple times for demonstrating against the regime since the start of the uprising.
  — Claire Harbage, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
• That wasn't the case in Ferguson (during the uprising, in 2014).
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
• The point here is that despite the uprising that left dozens of players and guards dead, the games will continue on from here.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
• The uprising underlined the polarization in Brazil between the left and the right.
  — Carla Bridi, ajc, 21 Jan. 2023
• The uprising brought to the fore a term that Ben-Gvir favors: meshilut, or governance.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Ireland might seem to be an odd place for a populist uprising.
  — Henry Olsen, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
• The sort of police raids on gay bars that led to the Stonewall uprising in 1969 became unimaginable decades ago.
  — Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 3 May 2021
• The people who were protesting were more peaceful, as compared to the uprising of 1992.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Buck hoped to instigate an uprising to force white settlers off the land and return it to the Creeks and Cherokees.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• How Maduro’s regime is hanging on, two years after an uprising against it — and what Biden should do about it.
  — Marshall Billingslea, National Review, 9 May 2021
• The current uprising against the regime, which was sparked by the killing of Mahsa Amini, has really led to a shift in the culture in Iran right now.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Between then and 1960, an uprising known as The Emergency took place.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
• The two are thrown into the chaos of a political uprising, on opposite sides of the war.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
• Schmitt, the player taking Chapman’s spot at third base, led off the ninth-inning uprising with a dugout-stirring home run.
  — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 10 June 2025
• No White House since then has dared to go around a state chief to activate domestic troops, and the seeming trigger for a careening upswing is an 1807 law that allows the military to be used to quash a domestic uprising.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 9 June 2025