RIOT in a Sentence

Learn RIOT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RIOT
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
2  In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; insurrection is always a moral phenomenon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
3  Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the stomach; Gaster grows irritated; but Gaster, assuredly, is not always in the wrong.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
4  In questions of famine, riot, Buzancais, for example, holds a true, pathetic, and just point of departure.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
5  Nevertheless, it remains a riot.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
6  In the beginning, the insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
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
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
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
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
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
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
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
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS
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.