Example Sentences
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Revolts in L.A. don’t always need literal flames — because the ones that burn brightest and longest are moral and philosophical.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
Revolts were staged in at least 50 cities.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2021
Revolts in 150 and 146 against Roman power served as the final pretext for the Roman subjugation of Greece.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Gates points to the classic 1943 Herbert Aptheker book American Negro Slave Revolts, which broke with professional tradition and tallied about 250 instances of violent rebellion.
From Slate • May 2, 2018
A century earlier the first scientists might have obtained a respectful hearing, and might have been permitted to press their claims; after the Protestant Revolts had torn Christian Europe asunder this could hardly be.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
