RIOT in a Sentence
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98 example sentences for RIOT, such as:
1. Nevertheless, it remains a riot.
2. Some students riot in fierce argument.
3. I'm glad you read the riot act to Billy.
4. Police used tear gas to put the riot down.
5. Cars and buses were set ablaze during the riot.
2. Some students riot in fierce argument.
3. I'm glad you read the riot act to Billy.
4. Police used tear gas to put the riot down.
5. Cars and buses were set ablaze during the riot.
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Meanings and Examples of RIOT
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riot
v. take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot
n. a joke that seems extremely funny
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1 But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which is sometimes right and sometimes wrong.
2 In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; insurrection is always a moral phenomenon.
3 Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in the wrong.
4 In questions of famine, riot, Buzancais, for example, holds a true, pathetic, and just point of departure.
5 Nevertheless, it remains a riot.
6 In the beginning, the insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent.
7 Universal suffrage has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms.
8 It appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quenisset affair, entrusted with this same function.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
9 Wrath spreads abroad the riot as wind spreads a fire.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
10 Nothing is more extraordinary than the first breaking out of a riot.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
11 Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific military tactics.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
12 A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places his merchandise in safety and risks his own person.
13 The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to the Emperor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER
14 Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish in water in a riot.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN
15 The very bourgeois who still ventured at this hour of riot to enter the Rue Saint-Denis cast a glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and redoubled their pace.
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1 Some students riot in fierce argument.
2 That might provoke a riot, the very thing he was trying to avoid.
3 They ran riot through the town after the defeat of their team.
4 Hundreds of police in riot gear struggled to control the violence.
5 The riot was precipitated when four black men were arrested.
6 About a thousand students fought with riot police in the capital.
7 A reporter was dispatched to Naples to cover the riot.
8 Manufacturers have let their imaginations run riot to create new computer games.
9 There was a short period of uneasy calm after the riot.
10 The riot left four people dead and several dozen injured.
11 Cars and buses were set ablaze during the riot.
12 Indiscipline among the troops eventually led to a riot.
13 Police used tear gas to put the riot down.
14 Six people were killed in the riot, including a policeman.
15 I'm glad you read the riot act to Billy.