Example Sentences

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"The people that were rioting, in my opinion, are stupid. I condemn them 100%."

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2024

“Not all those people there were rioting against the police, but those people who were, they can expect to be identified and arrested and put before the courts,” Webb said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024

His vivid dispatches of what he described as gente afligida — oppressed people — breaking into stores for daily essentials put him in demand locally and nationally to explain why Latinos were rioting.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022

Hundreds of our fellow anglophone Cameroonians were rioting and protesting.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2017

What did it mean, that students were rioting?

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie