How to Use uprising in a Sentence
uprising
noun- The government quickly put down the uprising.
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But the uprising is very much on the minds of the people who live here.
—ABC News, 15 Oct. 2023
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In the film, Ernest must save his town from a troll uprising.
—Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
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Dahomey obliquely plants the seed for such an uprising in the years to come.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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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
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All of that indicates that the uprising in Iran has a global side to it.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
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Early in the uprising, Masri's home in Homs was known a safe haven.
—Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
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Figueroa was convinced that Hijar, Padres and some of the colonists were behind the uprising.
—Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2022
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Chickie’s not the only king who falls to an uprising in this episode.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
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The uprising in Iran and the war in Ukraine are, on the surface, very different conflicts.
—Frida Ghitis, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
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An uprising of such inmates was a few short years away.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
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The Western response to the uprising in Libya in 2011 made matters worse.
—Frederic Wehrey, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
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The English reacted to the news of the uprising with horror.
—Peter C. Mancall, Time, 22 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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He was jailed multiple times for demonstrating against the regime since the start of the uprising.
—Claire Harbage, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
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That wasn't the case in Ferguson (during the uprising, in 2014).
—Brandon Tensley, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
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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
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The uprising underlined the polarization in Brazil between the left and the right.
—Carla Bridi, ajc, 21 Jan. 2023
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The uprising brought to the fore a term that Ben-Gvir favors: meshilut, or governance.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
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Ireland might seem to be an odd place for a populist uprising.
—Henry Olsen, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
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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
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The people who were protesting were more peaceful, as compared to the uprising of 1992.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Between then and 1960, an uprising known as The Emergency took place.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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