RABBLE in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for RABBLE, such as:
1. There the rabble ended and the army began.
2. But they did not come in as disorderly rabble, in full rout.
3. I knew the whole scribbling rabble, the party rabble, the fanatic rabble.
4. Be the cause what it may, it was the end of the Gloria Scott and of the rabble who held command of her.
5. The whole point of the post is that the rabble is destroying the language by replacing adverbs with adjectives.
2. But they did not come in as disorderly rabble, in full rout.
3. I knew the whole scribbling rabble, the party rabble, the fanatic rabble.
4. Be the cause what it may, it was the end of the Gloria Scott and of the rabble who held command of her.
5. The whole point of the post is that the rabble is destroying the language by replacing adverbs with adjectives.
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Meanings and Examples of RABBLE
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rabble
n. disparaging terms for the common people
n. a disorderly crowd of people
Classic Sentence:
1 I knew the whole scribbling rabble, the party rabble, the fanatic rabble.
2 The ingenuous police of the Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought.
3 Fex urbis, exclaims Cicero; mob, adds Burke, indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE
4 There the rabble ended and the army began.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
Context Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
5 Athens was an ochlocracy; the beggars were the making of Holland; the populace saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
6 It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her mattress in front of her window.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND...
7 But they did not come in as disorderly rabble, in full rout.
8 But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive, half-fabulous whales, which, as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally.
9 But just as the wedding was going to be solemnized, old Mr Fox stirred under the bench, and cudgelled all the rabble, and drove them and Mrs Fox out of the house.
10 At our landing, the captain forced me to cover myself with his cloak, to prevent the rabble from crowding about me.
11 Be the cause what it may, it was the end of the Gloria Scott and of the rabble who held command of her.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
Context Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
12 Our servile rabble applauded, but I attacked him, not from compassion for the girls and their fathers, but simply because they were applauding such an insect.
13 And so this adventurer, marching forth with an undisciplined and disorderly rabble to meet Hannibal, was, with all his followers, defeated and slain in the very first encounter.
Example Sentence:
1 The whole point of the post is that the rabble is destroying the language by replacing adverbs with adjectives.