Example Sentences

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Unnibbled, vegetation has rioted and farmers' incomes have risen.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old hearth, that has rioted the summer through with boughs and blossoms, gives up its withered tenantry.

From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Mitchell, Donald Grant

As a result, it has rioted in dreams of which he is the hero, until it has brought him to the point of thinking his wildest fancies quite possible realities.

From The Story of an Untold Love by Ford, Paul Leicester

"You know," whispered Tom, "what we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years."

From This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)