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Example sentences for "uprising"

Lexicographically close words:
uprightness; uprights; uprise; uprisen; upriseth; uprisings; upriver; uproar; uproarious; uproariously
  1. Unless checked, or cheated, that labor uprising would succeed; Tammany and its old-time enemies would alike go down.

  2. These had not come to the field in any force since that giant uprising when we beat them down with the reputable old gentleman.

  3. A landing was made at Monte Cristi with only twenty-five men, a general uprising being expected as soon as his arrival became known.

  4. The first attempt at uprising was a failure, as his plans were betrayed, and a rough sea prevented the French from landing.

  5. Discontent came and an uprising among the soldiers was nipped in the bud.

  6. Neither France nor Spain was anxious to annex a hornet's nest, and Spain was fearful that any uprising against her authority would find an echo in Cuba and Porto Rico.

  7. But I should think," remarked Dick, "that the authorities would make such preparations to subdue an uprising among the Indians that it would be crushed before they had a chance to get off the reservation.

  8. Soon his two friends were back in the saddle, however, and then they set off at a steady trot, discussing in a more serious vein the probability of such an uprising as Mr. Melton feared.

  9. Of course, as you say, the uprising would be suppressed quickly enough, but not perhaps without considerable bloodshed and loss of property.

  10. When flesh and blood could bear no more there was some slight uprising of an unarmed people and then the fury of Circassian and of Bashi-Bazouk was let loose upon them.

  11. Who can believe that through fear of the uprising of a few thousand Softas, the Sultan planned a fanatical uprising of the Kurds in distant Armenia.

  12. The columns are full of the preparations for the greatest uprising of the oppressed and parched citizens.

  13. VI The readers of the commercialised Press when they scan the inspired articles regarding America's social uprising have only to use their common-sense to realise that they are being served up falsehoods.

  14. But this uprising had caused them to reflect, and they saw that it was high time to come to an arrangement with these men, whom they had hitherto been accustomed to regard as irrational beings.

  15. We may possibly some day tell what was the termination of this grand uprising of the Indians, who on several occasions all but deprived the Mexican republic of its finest and richest, provinces.

  16. Despite the warnings that he was constantly receiving of the seditious doings of Mackenzie and his lieutenants, Sir Francis Bond Head could not be persuaded an uprising was imminent.

  17. In that glorious uprising of American women, all over the North, in the spring of 1861, to organize Soldiers' Aid Societies she was active and among the foremost in her own city.

  18. Here we speak of the great uprising with bated breath, but we, alas!

  19. The first bulletin announcing the tidings of the Wilkes-Barre uprising is posted by the Javelin at 2.

  20. To avert an uprising I shall warn the labor leaders myself.

  21. This extra contains the details of the threatened uprising in Wilkes-Barre, and the statement that the Committee of Forty has converted itself into a Syndicate of Annihilation.

  22. When October fourteenth dawned, the news of the uprising of the people of Wilkes-Barre and of the part played by Trueman and Ethel, were read by Nevins from the cable dispatches at Calais.

  23. To proclaim the forty agents of the Syndicate of Annihilation martyrs, may lead to an instant uprising of the anarchistic element.

  24. Their appeal to the native tribes of Africa was answered by a general uprising throughout the dependencies of Carthage.

  25. The movement thus begun received a fresh impulse from the uprising in Germany under Luther.

  26. Finally, in 1848, news flew across the Rhine of the uprising in France against the reactionary government of Louis Philippe, and the establishment by the French people of a new republic.

  27. The signal for the uprising of Europe was the terrible misfortune which befell Napoleon in his invasion of Russia.

  28. It was a city in Boeotia that led the uprising against Sparta.

  29. An opportune uprising of Protestants in Bohemia served as a pretext for placing Frederick of the Palatinate, head of the Protestant Union, upon the throne of Bohemia.

  30. Veleda's influence extended far beyond the theatre of the uprising on the "Island of the Batavi.

  31. The discovery of the plot, which was laid at the door of the King of Poland, produced an uprising and Czar Dimitry the Impostor was slain.

  32. In 1906 they helped quiet the uprising of that summer in Cuba.

  33. The army was degenerating and the popular fury became so great that there was an uprising of the army, which under the title of the "Military League," ousted the Government and took control of the country.

  34. The convention was signed in March, 1912, and a few days afterward an uprising more serious than any that had gone before took place in Fez.

  35. The crude idolatrous wealth-loving Berbers apparently dominated, but whenever there was a new uprising or a new invasion it was based on the religious discontent perpetually stirred up by Mahometan agents.

  36. The Bolshevik uprising was followed by civil war.

  37. It has been said that the Government instigated the uprising in order to bring about a separate peace with Germany.

  38. The resignation of the most influential bourgeois group of the first Coalition Government coincided quite accidentally with an armed uprising which the extremists, the Bolsheviki, had been planning for several weeks.

  39. He was so sure of himself and of his ability to put down the uprising and thereby show himself a real statesman that he concluded not to wait for the revolution to come in the ordinary course of events, but to hurry it a bit.

  40. And word of the Yaquis uprising is sure to go to them.

  41. It was an uprising of this same nature which had spelled trouble for Rosemary and her brother.

  42. There followed a period of intrigue and an uprising of the Scotch Presbyterians against the English Puritan.

  43. It was a step which reached much further than the uprising of the nobles which ended with the signing of the Magna Carta.

  44. He was also sorely bestead by mental and spiritual conflicts, which came to a crisis in Leith Walk in June 1821 in a sudden uprising of defiance to the devil and all his works, upon which the clouds lifted.

  45. Although not formally or professedly, it was, in fact, the beginning of an uprising against the classical school of poetry, and the founding of a new school in which nature was the teacher.

  46. And this showed well that they were come from far out of the East, for the nearer toward the uprising of the sun that men be born, the less they be of stature and be feebler and more tender.

  47. And so they rode forth, and suddenly, at the uprising of the sun, they came into the city of Jerusalem.

  48. Every little country paper had something witty or silly to say about the uprising of the "strong-minded.

  49. Although all this has no direct connection with freedom of thought, still, if any one be inclined to attribute the uprising of the mind to the intolerance of the court of Rome, let him listen to M.

  50. Guizot, "was a great attempt at the liberation of human thought--an uprising of the mind of man.

  51. It was to be a short, sharp war, and they now fear time is on the side of the Allies, so a general uprising is threatened.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uprising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ascendant; ascending; ascent; climb; climbing; commotion; elevation; fountain; gradient; gush; increase; jet; jump; leap; leaping; levitation; mount; mounting; mutiny; outbreak; rampant; rearing; rebellion; revolt; revolution; riot; rise; rising; saltatory; sedition; soaring; spiraling; spout; spring; spurt; surge; takeoff; trouble; upcoming; upgrade; uphill; uplift; uprise; uprising; upsurge; upward; vault