Example Sentences

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A Taliban source told Reuters that Mahdi had fallen out with the Taliban and had revolted against the group's leadership.

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2022

By then, the poet had revolted against his father’s severe morality, yet he felt obligated to pay a debt of honor.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2020

The Baltic states had revolted against Soviet power; their own national authorities were governing in parallel with Moscow.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2017

The drab beige color highlighted by a repellant pink, the granular texture, and its metallic tang of putrefied iron had revolted me since early childhood.

From Slate • Aug. 30, 2016

They were not outlaws because they were murderers, or for any reason like that They were Saxons who had revolted against Uther Pendragon’s conquest, and who refused to accept a foreign king.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White