REVOLT in a Sentence

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95 example sentences for REVOLT, such as:

1. The smell in the cell was revolting.
2. The army quickly crushed the revolt.
3. The violence in the movie revolted me.
4. Revolution is precisely the contrary of revolt.
5. Attempts to negotiate peace ended in armed revolt.

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 Meanings and Examples of REVOLT
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revolt
 v.  organize opposition to authority; make revolution
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  His reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, rose in revolt.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
2  For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the right to revolt against them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
3  Revolution is precisely the contrary of revolt.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
4  If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little revolt is desirable from the point of view of power.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
5  System: revolt strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
6  Power is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing down.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
7  Any other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human race.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
8  is insurrection; Hebert against Danton is revolt.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
9  There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
10  Like everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
11  In the midst of all these convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul struck eleven, gravely and without haste; for the tocsin is man; the hour is God.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT
12  All the words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy anxiety of toil claiming its rights.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
13  The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits it; it almost always comes too soon.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
14  A revolt was, in its eyes, no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in peril.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
15  People go to bed betimes in the Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The people will revolt when bread prices triple again.
2  Unless we alleviate conditions in the lowest stratum of our society, we may expect grumbling and revolt.
3  The King knew that he had to squash the revolt by foreign troops.
4  Attempts to negotiate peace ended in armed revolt.
5  The army quickly crushed the revolt.
6  The news of the revolt meant she had to rewrite her speech.
7  The violence in the movie revolted me.
8  The people revolted against foreign rule and established their own government.
9  The people revolted against the military dictator/dictatorship.
10  All who saw the distressing scene revolted against it.
11  His fulsome praise of the dictator revolted his listeners.
12  The anecdote was in such execrable taste that it revolted the audience.
13  Superstition was with me at that moment; but it was not yet her hour for complete victory: my blood was still warm; the mood of the revolted slave was still bracing me with its bitter vigour.
14  The smell in the cell was revolting.
15  There was a revolting green slime in between the bathroom tiles.