How to Use Arab Spring in a Sentence

Arab Spring

noun

• In 2011, the pro-democracy Arab Spring protests spiraled into proxy wars that spread through much of the Middle East.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• After the Arab Spring protests erupted in several countries in 2011, the group took control of the province of Saada.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• Even in the early days of the Arab Spring that tension sparked intense debates over how far Washington should go to encourage the pro-democracy protests.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2023
• The overthrow of Saddam served both to inspire and limit public support for Arab Spring uprisings a few years later.
  — Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2021
• While other Arab Spring nations descended into conflict, chaos or military rule, Tunisia stood out as bright spot.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
• Crucially, the king managed to ride the waves of the disruptive Arab Spring more than a decade ago better than his neighbors, in part through domestic and political changes that had a more modern, democratic tone.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Many believe their country’s decade-old democratic revolution has failed, a decade after Tunisia was the only nation to emerge from the Arab Spring protests with a democratic government.
  — Bouazza Ben Bouazza, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022
• For example, Arab Spring countries experienced abrupt sociopolitical transitions because of significant imbalances between the level of human development and level of regime type inclusion.
  — Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2023
• That’s strikingly similar to most elections following Arab Spring uprisings, when nationalists generally prevailed in all-or-nothing presidential elections whereas Islamists managed to piece together powerful legislative coalitions.
  — Hussein Ibish, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024