Sentences with uprising
up·ris·ing
U u - ...a popular uprising against the authoritarian government. [+ against]
- As we approached the city, the spires of tall buildings uprose as if to greet us.
- Many calamities uprose to plague the people during the war.
- The land uprises from the river to the hills.
- A blare of trumpets uprose to salute the king.
- WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.