Example Sentences

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As a result, there was “no separation between peaceful marchers and those who had been rioting, and no means whereby soldiers could identify and arrest only the latter,” the 2010 inquiry report said.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2022

Hundreds of volunteers were boarding up windows and sweeping away debris; by lunchtime you could barely tell there had been rioting just 12 hours before.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2011

I told her that there had been rioting in malls all over America, and that no one knew why.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

Over my mother’s shoulder I read that there had been rioting in Hankow.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

Pizarro's remark, however, did not refer to the dogs but to the settlers, who had been rioting over the governorship of the colony.

From Days of the Discoverers by Choate, Florence