How to Use revolt in a Sentence

revolt

1 of 2 verb

• The group threatened to revolt.
• All the violence revolted me.
• Which will cause all the other lords to revolt against her.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 16 May 2019
• Some say the nines intend to revolt, but that’s all smoke.
  — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2022
• People wouldn’t be able to agree on what to revolt against.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 14 Sep. 2023
• In Saint John’s School last week, the sixth-graders revolted. Yelling.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 June 2018
• In the past, this has given some members the power to revolt and even hold parts of the site hostage.
  — Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 13 July 2018
• In the end, the measure predictably fell flat in the Senate, and the right wing still revolted over spending.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Eat too much, and your gut may revolt, sending you to the roadside (or trailside) privy.
  — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 24 July 2020
• The fanbase, the ownership and the clubhouse would all have revolted.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 31 July 2019
• Then there’s the chance that readers who cherish the original works will revolt.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• The board, led by Peter Thiel, revolted, and ousted Musk.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• When you're steadily pushed, of course people are going to revolt.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 3 June 2020
• The Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south revolted, and Saddam responded with a brutal crackdown.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• Users revolted in what became known as the Great Blackout.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2018
• Players from Spain and France revolted against their coaches (Spain’s coach is still around, France’s isn’t).
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 19 July 2023
• Officials reviewed the play and upheld the ruling on the field, causing fans to revolt against the referees.
  — Mike Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• Sometime last year, my hands decided to revolt against me.
  — Melissa Epifano, Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• Tremendous inequality led the French to revolt against this 1% who hoarded wealth while the people lacked flour for bread.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Plenty of teams play in cities where fans revolt or lose interest when their team dips below .500.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 2019
• Tremendous inequality led the French to revolt against their 1% who hoarded wealth while the people lacked flour for bread.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2020
• Democrats may think this is a bluff, or that the public would revolt if Republicans ground Senate business to a halt.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2021
• The mother-daughter exchange at the end is, as Purdum writes, revolting.
  — Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, 8 July 2018
• But as labor shortages grew during World War I and inflation rose at the end of the war, workers began to revolt.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 22 July 2021
• When the insurgents become the establishment, those who helped put them there are bound to revolt.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• These people revolt against their Earthly overlords in favor of loose self-rule.
  — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 12 Dec. 2019
• Slaveholders were on constant alert that their slaves would revolt.
  — Mariana Rivas, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2021
• There is no evidence that these officials are opposed to the overall plan, or would revolt against Putin's orders, two of the sources said.
  — Natasha Bertrand, Jim Sciutto and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
• Economies have been destabilized by too much of it, and populations have revolted from too little of it.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• McCarthy was removed from the position last month after eight House Republicans revolted and pushed a motion to vacate that won the support of all Democrats in the lower chamber.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2023

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revolt

2 of 2 noun

• The leader of the group called for revolt.
• The peasants' revolt was crushed by the king.
• Consumers are in revolt against high prices.
• And that was kind of part of the - the theme of his - of his revolt.
  — CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
• The House was forced to scrap the rest of the votes scheduled for the day over the revolt.
  — Joe Locascio, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
• The nearby city of Daraa, the birthplace of the 2011 revolts, has seen some protests in the past few years.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• There are now so many in revolt, and the numbers offer a sort of protection.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• But even after the revolt against Palevsky, the institution didn’t make things easy for him.
  — Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• For almost two years, in a small corner of the internet, a kind of revolt has been brewing.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
• Hoping to start a revolt, a young boy is instead captured.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
• To quash the ever-present threat of a revolt, punishment was sadistic and frequent.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• The student revolt isn’t a death sentence for this woman-only school.
  — The Editors, National Review, 22 Mar. 2023
• Frankly, cheering on a whale revolt feels like a far more desirable way to relieve the agita.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 7 July 2023
• Consider, for instance, the claim that the Tea Party was a revolt against higher taxes on tea.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• Unlike the hard right, the strategists argue, staging a floor revolt simply isn’t in their nature.
  — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• Harvard and Yale law schools led the revolt in November and were soon joined by a roster of top medical schools.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• Yet for some of us, the Palestinian revolt has had the salutary effect of making Israel more visible through the mists of wish and dream.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Here’s the key: Cassian has a chance to get Kino on his side, empower him as a leader and start the prison revolt needed to make his escape.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• The Jewish festival celebrates the revolt of the Maccabees against Greek rule.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• OpenAI couldn’t afford that kind of exodus, bringing the brief revolt against Altman to a close.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2023
• The decision prompted widespread revolt, with two TV channels going ahead with the clock changes in protest.
  — Celine Alkhaldi, CNN, 27 Mar. 2023
• Already voters are in full revolt over the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
  — Michael Waldman, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2023
• To achieve this, Lai bankrolled the city’s prodemocracy camp to foment a pro-independence revolt.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2023
• After the Ken revolt, the Barbies bring the Kens more into the government of Barbieland.
  — Michael Allen, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• On today's 5 Things podcast, a revolt from GOP conservatives over the debt deal.
  — USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• His movie was a swank metaphorical concoction about flesh in revolt.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2023
• Absent a far-right revolt, a vote in the House could occur as soon as Tuesday, maximizing pressure on the Senate to act ahead of the Nov. 17 deadline.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• The revolt against the affirmative action of the 1960s was immediate.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• The standoff has put Johnson in a bind over how to piece together a plan that a majority of the House can support but that also doesn’t lead to a revolt by hard-liners closely watching his leadership.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• Sorry Reddit’s 19-year history has been a roller coaster of scandals over unsavory content, abrupt leadership changes, and user revolts.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024