How to Use revolt in a Sentence

revolt

1 of 2 verb

• The group threatened to revolt.
• All the violence revolted me.
• Which will cause all the other lords to revolt against her.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 16 May 2019
• Some say the nines intend to revolt, but that’s all smoke.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2022
• People wouldn’t be able to agree on what to revolt against.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 14 Sep. 2023
• In Saint John’s School last week, the sixth-graders revolted. Yelling.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 June 2018
• In the past, this has given some members the power to revolt and even hold parts of the site hostage.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 13 July 2018
• In the end, the measure predictably fell flat in the Senate, and the right wing still revolted over spending.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Eat too much, and your gut may revolt, sending you to the roadside (or trailside) privy.
  — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 24 July 2020
• The fanbase, the ownership and the clubhouse would all have revolted.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 31 July 2019
• Then there’s the chance that readers who cherish the original works will revolt.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• The board, led by Peter Thiel, revolted, and ousted Musk.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• When you're steadily pushed, of course people are going to revolt.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 3 June 2020
• The Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south revolted, and Saddam responded with a brutal crackdown.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• Users revolted in what became known as the Great Blackout.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2018
• Players from Spain and France revolted against their coaches (Spain’s coach is still around, France’s isn’t).
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 19 July 2023
• Officials reviewed the play and upheld the ruling on the field, causing fans to revolt against the referees.
  — Mike Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• Sometime last year, my hands decided to revolt against me.
  — Melissa Epifano, Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• Tremendous inequality led the French to revolt against this 1% who hoarded wealth while the people lacked flour for bread.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Plenty of teams play in cities where fans revolt or lose interest when their team dips below .500.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 2019
• Tremendous inequality led the French to revolt against their 1% who hoarded wealth while the people lacked flour for bread.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2020
• Democrats may think this is a bluff, or that the public would revolt if Republicans ground Senate business to a halt.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2021
• The mother-daughter exchange at the end is, as Purdum writes, revolting.
  — Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, 8 July 2018
• But as labor shortages grew during World War I and inflation rose at the end of the war, workers began to revolt.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 22 July 2021
• When the insurgents become the establishment, those who helped put them there are bound to revolt.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• These people revolt against their Earthly overlords in favor of loose self-rule.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 12 Dec. 2019
• Slaveholders were on constant alert that their slaves would revolt.
  — Mariana Rivas, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2021
• There is no evidence that these officials are opposed to the overall plan, or would revolt against Putin's orders, two of the sources said.
  — Natasha Bertrand, Jim Sciutto and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
• Doing business with China is one thing, but for the NBA to kowtow to the demands of one of the world’s most brutal regimes in the pursuit of profit is, frankly, revolting.
  — Fox News, 7 Oct. 2019
• Some students revolt, upset about the morality of looking for a crime with no real cause.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 15 June 2020

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revolt

2 of 2 noun

• The leader of the group called for revolt.
• The peasants' revolt was crushed by the king.
• Consumers are in revolt against high prices.
• And that was kind of part of the - the theme of his - of his revolt.
  — CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
• The House was forced to scrap the rest of the votes scheduled for the day over the revolt.
  — Joe Locascio, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
• The nearby city of Daraa, the birthplace of the 2011 revolts, has seen some protests in the past few years.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• There are now so many in revolt, and the numbers offer a sort of protection.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• But even after the revolt against Palevsky, the institution didn’t make things easy for him.
  — Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• For almost two years, in a small corner of the internet, a kind of revolt has been brewing.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
• Hoping to start a revolt, a young boy is instead captured.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
• To quash the ever-present threat of a revolt, punishment was sadistic and frequent.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• The student revolt isn’t a death sentence for this woman-only school.
  — The Editors, National Review, 22 Mar. 2023
• Frankly, cheering on a whale revolt feels like a far more desirable way to relieve the agita.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 7 July 2023
• Consider, for instance, the claim that the Tea Party was a revolt against higher taxes on tea.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• Unlike the hard right, the strategists argue, staging a floor revolt simply isn’t in their nature.
  — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• Harvard and Yale law schools led the revolt in November and were soon joined by a roster of top medical schools.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• Yet for some of us, the Palestinian revolt has had the salutary effect of making Israel more visible through the mists of wish and dream.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Here’s the key: Cassian has a chance to get Kino on his side, empower him as a leader and start the prison revolt needed to make his escape.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The Jewish festival celebrates the revolt of the Maccabees against Greek rule.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• OpenAI couldn’t afford that kind of exodus, bringing the brief revolt against Altman to a close.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2023
• The decision prompted widespread revolt, with two TV channels going ahead with the clock changes in protest.
  — Celine Alkhaldi, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
• Already voters are in full revolt over the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
  — Michael Waldman, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2023
• To achieve this, Lai bankrolled the city’s prodemocracy camp to foment a pro-independence revolt.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2023
• After the Ken revolt, the Barbies bring the Kens more into the government of Barbieland.
  — Michael Allen, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• On today's 5 Things podcast, a revolt from GOP conservatives over the debt deal.
  — USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• His movie was a swank metaphorical concoction about flesh in revolt.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
• Absent a far-right revolt, a vote in the House could occur as soon as Tuesday, maximizing pressure on the Senate to act ahead of the Nov. 17 deadline.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• The revolt against the affirmative action of the 1960s was immediate.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The reasons for the revolt and whether Akechi Mitsuhide was really the ringleader have been debated ever since.
  — Mark Schilling, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
• From Metropolis to Terminator, sci-fi has taught us to fear the AI revolt.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024