Example Sentences

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Across Southern California, residents are revolting against bright LEDs.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Many of the underlying reasons writers and actors are revolting are related to the same tyrannical obsession with established IP despite visibly diminishing returns.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023

He sings an entirely different tune as he observes, from across the Atlantic, that his colonial subjects are revolting, in all senses of the word.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2015

To like Tom, the character, you have to tolerate impulses and actions that are revolting yet uncannily true to life.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2014

“Mother, I must attend to my bowels. They are revolting against the trauma of the last twenty-four hours.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole