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
• 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
• Led by the latter, the Hutsuls, an indigenous group, start an uprising.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• In the midst of a worker’s uprising, Cornelis displays his plans for progressive change.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
• In the midst of a workers’ uprising, Cornelius displays his plans for progressive change.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023
• In Jau prison, where the hunger strikers are playing out, entire buildings are filled with young men who were sentenced to death or life in prison after the uprising.
  — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• In the uprising that followed, a white police officer killed Robinson and a white teenager killed Ware.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• The next day, Ecuador’s attorney general announced that at least 18 people had died during a days-long uprising in a prison in the port city Guayaquil.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 26 July 2023
• In an uprising, a coalition of residents say the noise is unbearable.
  — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• Brady Slavens provided the big blow, a three-run homer against lefty Tommy Vail (2-1) in the fourth inning that touched off a five-run uprising to overcome Auburn's early 2-0 lead.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
• As a powerful counterpoint, later editions of the book noted the waves of women in the Arab Spring uprisings in North Africa and elsewhere.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
• Their work reflects the hope, turmoil and tragedy of the popular uprising and the violent crackdown that followed.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• The next day, Christmas Eve, he was ousted in a coup, the first military uprising in the country’s modern history.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• Iran was rocked by protests last year during the Mahsa Amini uprising, which prompted a spread of black sites around Iran’s capital city, Tehran.
  — WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
• As the Soweto uprising unfolded, he and other Black journalists were detained, this time for 123 days, and his house was burned down.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• In Brazil, Benedito helps lead an uprising on the plantation.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2023
• But they have been joined by larger waves of migrants from Belarus, after the 2020 uprising there, and from Ukraine, after the Russian invasion.
  — Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024