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Example sentences for "revolt from"

  • The western nations of Syria, Phœnicia and Egypt, revolt from the Assyrians.

  • He accordingly put out to sea, induced several of the islands to revolt from Athens, and overran Ægina and Salamis.

  • He overran a great part of Sicily, induced cities to revolt from Carthage, and beat all forces that opposed him.

  • Ptolemy sailed to Greece with a large force and induced many of the Greek cities to revolt from Demetrius, while Lysimachus, starting from Thrace, invaded and plundered Upper Macedonia.

  • Before he began however to lead forth his army, he had sent heralds to the Ionians and tried to induce them to revolt from Croesus; but the Ionians would not do as he said.

  • General population of Chios was disinclined to revolt from Athens.

  • Admitting that there was an oligarchy in power at Samos, it is perfectly possible to explain why this oligarchy had not yet carried into act its disposition to revolt from Athens.

  • But now one Aristoteles of Argos, a friend of Aratus, sent secretly to him to say that he could cause that city to revolt from Kleomenes, if Aratus would appear before it with some Macedonian soldiers.

  • However, late in the evening there arrived certain friends of Aratus by sea from Argos, inviting him to come thither, as the Argives intended to revolt from Kleomenes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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