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Example sentences for "revolutionary"

Lexicographically close words:
revoltingly; revolts; revolute; revolution; revolutionaries; revolutionise; revolutionised; revolutionising; revolutionist; revolutionists
  1. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.

  2. No, but somehow my Revolutionary friends have heard about my arrest, and they have arranged for our release--secretly of course.

  3. It was arranged that the Russian should call again soon, when the plans would be nearer in shape, and in the meanwhile he must learn all he could from revolutionary friends in Siberia.

  4. If I could only get word to some of my Revolutionary friends it might do some good, but I guess I can't.

  5. It was a delight to watch him during this Session, and especially when it became necessary to use the guillotine against the revolutionary and iniquitous attempt to paralyse the House of Commons by sheer shameless obstruction.

  6. But all the same, one could read between the lines, and it was pretty clear that the Old Man was preparing to face the situation by remedies drastic enough to meet even so revolutionary a situation.

  7. It is more than twelve years since this extreme, violent, and almost revolutionary step was adopted before.

  8. Most of the leaders were for Adams, who was superior to Pinckney in Revolutionary services and ability.

  9. He recommended to the President that rank in the Revolutionary army be disregarded and that the three major-generals to be appointed should be Hamilton, Charles Pinckney, and Knox.

  10. Fouche now compelled him to reduce to writing all the proclamations of the proposed revolutionary government, its warrants and edicts against the factions of the 18th Brumaire.

  11. Marthe, who saw no one, suffered keenly from the ostracism which for the last seven years had surrounded her as the daughter of a revolutionary butcher, and the wife of a so-called traitor.

  12. Accused of corresponding with the Duke of Brunswick and the Prince of Cobourg, the marquis and his wife were thrust into prison and condemned to death by the revolutionary tribunal of Troyes, of which Madame Michu's father was then president.

  13. Both were revolutionary in character, and prophetic of further changes quite beyond the foresight of contemporaries.

  14. The time, too, was apposite, for Japan had not yet entered upon the path of modernization which she has since pursued with such revolutionary progress.

  15. The owner was not only one of the ablest surgeons of the Revolutionary army, but a public-spirited citizen, a capable officer, and the ancestor of a line of surgeons and physicians who have done most important things in the community.

  16. Here General Knox of Revolutionary fame was a frequent visitor.

  17. This mansion was a type that came into prominence at the close of the Revolutionary War, a large, square house, three stories in height, showing in exterior finish many of McIntire's best designs.

  18. This was used in Revolutionary times to shelter one of the servants, a deserter from the Continental Army, who was discovered and shot.

  19. It ante-dated the Revolutionary war, and at the time of its purchase by Mr. Parker, in 1777, it was considered by the residents of the town as an old mansion.

  20. During the Revolutionary period, the house passed out of the hands of the Quincy family.

  21. He, like his sire, was a most comely man, just entering into manhood when he married Dorothea Folsom, a great-granddaughter of the noted Revolutionary hero.

  22. It was used by him when quartermaster in the Revolutionary War.

  23. In 1775, at the commencement of the Revolutionary troubles, this group of men were naturally out of favor and eventually it ceased to exist.

  24. It is to be numbered among the really few genuine old dwellings which date back to pre-Revolutionary days,--a veritable old home, combining in construction unusual architectural features.

  25. He devoted himself to the study of medicine during the early Revolutionary movements of the Stamp Act Riot and the Tea Party.

  26. This beautiful pre-Revolutionary home was burned in the bombardment of Charleston, and with it was destroyed the library that had been the pride of the poet's heart.

  27. In 1801 the youthful advocate opened his law office in the town from which the Revolutionary Key had marched away to Boston to join Colonel Washington's troops.

  28. But for her olden tales, the romances of Revolutionary South Carolina and the shivery fascination of "Dismal Castle" might have been unknown to future readers.

  29. What Jefferson called "the awakening of the spirit of 1776" was to Fisher Ames an ominous sign of impending "revolutionary Robespierrism.

  30. To forestall these designs President Washington appointed to command in the Northwest Anthony Wayne--"Mad Anthony" of Revolutionary days.

  31. Hamilton argued rather fallaciously that these treaties were made by the King of France and were binding upon his successors alone; they were not in force after the Revolutionary Government had destroyed the monarchy.

  32. In the eyes of his opponents, the Republican was no better than a democrat, a Jacobin, a revolutionary incendiary; and the Federalist no better than a monocrat and a Tory.

  33. There is evidence in these new constitutions, however, that the people placed less reliance in their legislative bodies than did the people of the Revolutionary era.

  34. He now took up with vigor his revolutionary projects in the West.

  35. What David was to the great actors in the revolutionary drama in France, Trumbull was to the notable characters of the American Revolution.

  36. The proclamation was well-timed, for Genet had already landed at Charleston and had begun his extraordinary career as revolutionary agent of the Gironde.

  37. In successive congresses at Troppau and Laybach, the three powers, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, resolved to suppress these revolutionary movements.

  38. Perhaps nothing since the Revolutionary War has produced more uneasy sensations through the body of the nation.

  39. Clark was given a commission as "Major General of the Independent and Revolutionary Legion of the Mississippi," and was promised the coöperation of frigates in his attack upon New Orleans.

  40. In February, 1794, Genet was replaced by Fauchet and his revolutionary mission ended with his official duties.

  41. Within a few years revolutionary uprisings occurred in Italy and Spain.

  42. History shows us how terrible a thing war is--especially revolutionary war.

  43. There is nothing revolutionary about the procession.

  44. A Social Revolutionary representative of the town delivered a furious tirade, which I could get my officer to translate only in part, but even that part showed me the world-wide division of opinion amongst my Russian hosts.

  45. The weariness of the peasantry and workmen with revolutionary disorder gave the opportunity to reaction to establish another absolutism which was only restrained by outside influence.

  46. It is not the first time in revolutionary history that the adherents of autocracy (Royalist and otherwise) have preferred the ruin of their country rather than lose their own personal power.

  47. Social Revolutionary control of all the forces of the new Government, demanded that a Social Revolutionary should also control the newly-organised militia, which were to act as a sort of military police under the new régime.

  48. The Siberian Government had been established by the alive elements of the old régime and the more showy members of the Social Revolutionary party, but their authority was ignored and their orders were not often conspicuous for their wisdom.

  49. The front line was kept denuded of arms and equipment of which it was in greatest need, while the militia in the rear, and under the Social Revolutionary control, were being regimented and fitted out with everything they required.

  50. General Bolderoff was known as a Social Revolutionary in politics.

  51. Liszt incorporated with this poem a fragment from his Revolutionary Symphony outlined in 1830.

  52. The Revolutionary Symphony still survives in part in Liszt's eighth symphonic poem.

  53. The revolution started his pulse to beating, and he composed a revolutionary symphony.

  54. With the cannon booming in Paris he sketched the plan of his Revolutionary Symphony, but he continued to visit the aristocracy.

  55. Wagner rang incendiary church bells during the revolutionary days at Dresden in May 1849.

  56. Hereafter I shall have occasion to examine this in detail, and show how it was merely a symptom of a revolutionary movement.

  57. Lord Eldon, who to the last stood up for the church, pronounced the bill for repealing these acts to be a 'revolutionary bill.

  58. The President of the Revolutionary Government, Emilio Aguinaldo.

  59. The dictator will be entitled hereafter President of the Revolutionary Government.

  60. The discovery of the islands that he called the Sandwich, after his patron the Earl of Sandwich, happened in the midst of our Revolutionary war.

  61. There has been established a Revolutionary Government, under wise and just laws, suited to the abnormal circumstances through which it is passing, and which, in proper time, will prepare it for a true Republic.

  62. The government will establish abroad a revolutionary committee, composed of a number not yet determined of persons most competent in the Philippine Archipelago.

  63. He had, while himself keeping on legal ground, compelled Pompeius to declare war, and to declare it not as the representative of the legitimate authority, but as general of a revolutionary minority of the Senate, which overawed the majority.

  64. As the Sempronian laws first constituted the revolutionary party into a political opposition, the Gabinio-Manilian first converted it from an opposition into a government.

  65. He was the last but one of the Revolutionary soldiers who filled that position.

  66. Vanderbilt's Social History of Flatbush gives some exceedingly interesting glimpses of life in this region during and after the Revolutionary period.

  67. Not only did he gain a general's commission during the revolutionary wars, but he's also a member of the Mexican Congress, so close to the government that he needs only to wink to get what he wants.

  68. Neither Austria nor Prussia was for some time in a position to thwart it, and the sovereigns of the smaller states were too much afraid of the revolutionary elements manifested on all sides to oppose its will.

  69. Such a revolutionary foundation might be good enough for the ephemeral empires of France; the appeal of Prussia should be to the God of battles alone.

  70. The defendants were poor smugglers from the Esthonian border marshes, who in the course of their ordinary avocations had carried bales of revolutionary tracts into Russia without troubling as to their contents.

  71. Of the original 12 panels, taken to France during the Revolutionary Wars, only 4 are now here, 6 being in the Berlin museum and two in that of Brussels.

  72. The assembly summoned amid the revolutionary excitement of March met on the 22nd of May.

  73. To sovereigns whose nerves had been shattered by the vicissitudes of the revolutionary epoch these symptoms were in the highest degree alarming; and Metternich was at pains to exaggerate their significance.

  74. In spite of the clamour of the mediatized princes for the restoration of their "liberties," no attempt was made to reverse the essential changes in the territorial disposition of Germany made during the revolutionary epoch.

  75. Towards the end of 1848 Vienna was completely in the hands of the revolutionary party, and it was retaken only after desperate fighting.

  76. The change was more revolutionary in appearance than in reality.

  77. In dealing with Cuba there had been no formal recognition of the revolutionary organization.

  78. Without any esteem for Austria, he refused to further the plans of the revolutionary party, and thus incurred the hostility of Mazzini, who was organizing the movement of "Young Italy" for independence and unity.

  79. The revolutionary tribunal was broken down.

  80. Sulpicius, one of his adherents, brought forward a revolutionary law for incorporating the Italians and freedmen among the thirty-five tribes.

  81. The main ground and cement of the coalition was the dread which the governments felt of revolutionary movements among their own subjects, from their sympathy with the new institutions in France.

  82. He had won admiration from his enemies by his evident freedom from the revolutionary fanaticism, and his contempt for declamation about "the rights of man.

  83. The insurrection in Sicily aimed at independence, but Palermo was surrendered to the revolutionary government of Naples.

  84. In 1848--after a second interval of about equal length--another revolutionary crisis occurred.

  85. The intention of the revolutionary party to propagate their system in other countries afforded one excuse for this interference.

  86. Italy, it should be observed, was already on fire with these revolutionary movements prior to the overthrow of the government of Louis Philippe.

  87. The mania, if one may so call it, reached its height in such chiefs of the revolutionary party as Marat, Billaud, and Robespierre.

  88. Thus a system of revolutionary government was everywhere established.

  89. He had entered ardently into the Revolution of 1848, and built a bridge in a single night by which the Revolutionary army crossed and won the brilliant victory of Nagy Salo.

  90. They, with a similar element in the other Nations, gathered around the venerable Chief Hopoeithleyohola, nearly 100 years old, and whose span of life began before the Revolutionary War.

  91. He ardently shared the aspirations of the young Germans for German Unity, and resigned his commission in 1847 to become one of the leaders in the revolutionary forces.

  92. Furniture of the Revolutionary Period=, by Esther Singleton.

  93. The story relates to the adventures of a young royalist in the French Revolutionary epoch, who had disguised himself in female apparel to escape detection.

  94. Arthur O'Connor, nephew and heir of Lord Longueville, was one of the Irish leaders, who took part in the negotiations between the Revolutionary party in Ireland and the French Directory.

  95. At Orchies, where we arrived rather late in the evening, we first found decided marks of a revolutionary state of things.

  96. Lafayette and their three children entirely in the country, at a chateau which has descended to her since the revolutionary horrors and therefore has not been confiscated, called "La Grange.

  97. But at this moment, revolutionary terrors and conflicting sensations robbed each of them of that self-command which till now had regulated their public intercourse.


  98. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revolutionary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agitator; anarchist; anarchistic; antagonistic; antipathetic; authentic; beast; beldam; better; bomber; brawler; breakaway; brute; cataclysmic; catastrophic; changeable; changed; clashing; conflicting; contradictory; converted; corrective; cranky; creation; crotchety; degenerate; demon; devil; disorderly; dissident; divergent; dragon; extreme; extremist; factious; fanatic; fiend; firebrand; firsthand; fresh; fury; goon; gorilla; hood; hoodlum; hostile; imaginative; improved; incendiary; inflammatory; inimical; insubordinate; insurgent; insurrectionary; killer; madcap; malcontent; maverick; modified; monster; mutant; mutineer; mutinous; new; nihilistic; novel; obstreperous; opposing; oppositional; original; perverse; pink; progressive; qualified; rabid; radical; rampant; reactionary; rebel; rebellious; rebuilt; recalcitrant; reformed; reformer; renewed; repugnant; resistant; revisionist; revived; revolutionary; revolutionist; revulsive; rioter; riotous; savage; sectary; seditious; subversive; sweeping; termagant; terror; terrorist; terroristic; tiger; tigress; tough; traitor; traitorous; transformed; transmuted; treasonable; turbulent; ultra; unbridled; underground; unique; unmitigated; unruly; violent; virago; wild; witch; wolf; worse


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    revolutionary action; revolutionary government; revolutionary movement