How to Use uprising in a Sentence

uprising

noun

• The government quickly put down the uprising.
• But the uprising is very much on the minds of the people who live here.
  — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2023
• In the film, Ernest must save his town from a troll uprising.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• Dahomey obliquely plants the seed for such an uprising in the years to come.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
• The replica of the Amistad — the ship that was the site of an uprising of captive Africans in 1839 — will be open for free tours.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2022
• All of that indicates that the uprising in Iran has a global side to it.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
• Figueroa was convinced that Hijar, Padres and some of the colonists were behind the uprising.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2022
• Chickie’s not the only king who falls to an uprising in this episode.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
• The uprising in Iran and the war in Ukraine are, on the surface, very different conflicts.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
• The Western response to the uprising in Libya in 2011 made matters worse.
  — Frederic Wehrey, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
• The English reacted to the news of the uprising with horror.
  — Peter C. Mancall, Time, 22 Mar. 2022
• That is, until the uprising at the end of season one after the hosts become self-aware.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2022
• The uprising failed: either the tanks didn’t arrive on schedule or the submarines surfaced in the wrong place.
  — Oleh Sentsov, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2023
• The uprising underlined the polarization in Brazil between the left and the right.
  — Carla Bridi, ajc, 21 Jan. 2023
• The uprising brought to the fore a term that Ben-Gvir favors: meshilut, or governance.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Ireland might seem to be an odd place for a populist uprising.
  — Henry Olsen, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
• The people who were protesting were more peaceful, as compared to the uprising of 1992.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The current uprising against the regime, which was sparked by the killing of Mahsa Amini, has really led to a shift in the culture in Iran right now.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Between then and 1960, an uprising known as The Emergency took place.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
• The pin design was inspired by a commander of the uprising, Marek Edelman, who died in 2009.
  — Dinah Spritzer, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• Even in the early days of the uprisings, that phrase seemed to understate the significance of what had begun in Tunisia.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
• Sardar Azmoun, a forward on the team, has been the most vocal champion of the uprising.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• An uprising by enslaved people on the island led her to return to the mainland to begin life anew in 1790.
  — Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• In that case, the Niger crisis might bear some passing resemblance to Prigozhin’s own abortive uprising last month.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 2 Aug. 2023
• After the uprising in 2020 [following the death of George Floyd], no one can pretend to be ignorant of the past and keep their head in the clouds anymore.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2022
• This was a few years after Michael Brown had been killed [in 2014] and the uprisings in Ferguson [Missouri] had happened.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
• Peace landed her big chance in 2020 during the nation’s racial uprising protests.
  — Essence, 10 Sep. 2022
• If not for the uprising of the Osage Indian tribe, the expedition would have rivaled that of Lewis and Clark.
  — Curtis Varnell The Timepiece, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
• Led by the latter, the Hutsuls, an indigenous group, start an uprising.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• Bashir and some of his allies were jailed in Sudan after a popular uprising in 2019, but were never sent to The Hague.
  — Bart Meijer and Stephanie Van Den Berg, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024