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• This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt.From the entry despotic
• The feudal subjects decided to revolt.From the entry revolting
• He hijacked the Bear Flag revolt, calling himself Oso Numero Uno (Number One Bear).2009, David A. Clary, Eagles and Empire. From the entry oso
• Her misdemeanors may be partly the expression of her inner revolt.Quoted in 2002, The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler (page 32). From the entry misdemeanor
• The Gundamaniacs are going to go into full revolt if that happens.1999 January 11, Kyle T. Pope, “Re: Anime deserves Hollywood remake”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet). From the entry Gundamaniac
• The Persian Empire was convulsing with intrigue, revolt, and civil war.1988, Carroll Stuhlmueller, Rebuilding with Hope: A Commentary on the Books of Haggai and Zechariah, page 12. From the entry convulse
• Twenty-four years later, it asserted its regional personality also, through a revolt against its co-religionist West Pakistanis.1982, D. Devahuti, Historical and political perspectives, page 237. From the entry co-linguist
• The constituency's large Jewish population is in open revolt over the Foreign Secretary's Arafat arslikhan.1981, Private Eye. From the entry arslikhan
• While Solborg and Lemaigre were dreaming of revolts, Donovan had learned of Solborg’s insubordination and meddling.1980, David Schoenbrun, Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance, Dutton, →ISBN, page 203. From the entry rocket
• Actually it's humour from the peasants' revolt, the thirty years' war, and from the Napoleonic wars.1971, Kurt Vonnegut, “Running Experiments Off: An Interview”, in Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut. From the entry gallows humor
• Like several characters in The Possessed, he revolts dramatically against God and is obsessed with suicide.1959, Francis L. Kunkel, The Labyrinthine Ways of Graham Greene, Sheed & Ward, page 111. From the entry Dostoyevskean
• The same way with sinarchism — he revolted against the thought of a protector.1949, Cornelia Sussman, Teach the Angry Spirit, page 247. From the entry sinarchism
• I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, published 1962, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 131. From the entry infuriate
• There could be no rest-houses for revolt, no dividend of joy paid out.1927, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 19, in Revolt in the Desert, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, pages 170–171. From the entry accretive
• He credits GamerGaters with organizing a revolt against a deeply unsatisfying marketplace by loyal consumers who deserve better.2016, Alison Novak, Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age. From the entry GamerGater
• Wouldn’t an Esperanto of revolt be magnificent?2016, chapter IX, in To the Customers: Insurrection and Doublethink, Aragorn Moser, page 110. From the entry politickese
• Our first evidence concerns the dramatic episode in Pythagoras’ life when he left Croton because of the Cylonian revolt.2016, Leonid Zhmud, “The Papyrological Tradition on Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans”, in Christian Vassallo, editor, Presocratics and…. From the entry Cylonian
• There was no outrise or revolt against it.2003, Thomas P. O'Neill, James Fintan Lalor, page 142. From the entry outrise
• Whenever a jacquerie occurred, the authorities looked "upon it as a revolt of the underdog against his native oppressor."1986, G Krishnan-Kutty, Peasantry in India, page 71. From the entry jacquerie
• Meanwhile, another man named Zhuang Datian, having raised the standard of revolt in Fengshan (modem Gaoxiong), attacked and captured Fengshan.1982 [1980 November], “The Ming-Qing Period: the Twilight of Feudalism”, in Bai Shouyi [白寿彝], editor, An Outline History of China [中国通史纲要]…. From the entry Gaoxiong
• A revolt, antiforeign and antiofficial in inspiration, started among the perennially restive young tin miners in the Ko-chiu mining region.[1980, Donald S. Sutton, Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905–25 (Michigan Studies on China), Ann Arbor…. From the entry Gejiu
• One of the international symbols of revolt was a hairstyle, long (for the time), greasy, curly and sideboarded.1978, Peter Lewis, The Fifties, page 120. From the entry sideboarded
• The unsuccessful revolt of Hokow was also engineered in Vietnam.1969, King C. Chen, Vietnam and China, 1938-1954, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16. From the entry Hokow
• Attempts have been made from time to time to prove that Jesus was the leader of an unsuccessful zelotic revolt.1954, Ragnar Leivestad, Christ, the Conqueror, page 27. From the entry zelotic
• At this the Szechwanese rebelled, and, as the time was ripe, their action led to a nationwide revolt.1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88. From the entry Szechwanese
• They smelled of turpentine and revolted my appetite.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 21, in Klee Wyck. From the entry ship's biscuit
• The instinct revolted against the inevitable punishment to come, already tokened by those big holes now met in walls and crossings.1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 149. From the entry token
• The very seventeenness of her revolted; she dropped her attitude.1921, Fannie Hurst, Stardust: The Story of an American Girl. From the entry seventeenness
• The result was not revolt, but a familiar wartime dynamic: a rally around the flag, reinforced by coercion and fear of state retribution.2026 April 23, Fawaz Gerges, “Trump’s war has backfired spectacularly: Iran is now more influential than ever”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry rally round the flag
• The Creole affair is important because, from the slaves' standpoint, the Creole affair was the most successful slave revolt in American history.2014, Arthur T. Downey, The Creole Affair, →ISBN. From the entry affair
• An example can be found in the data about the campaigns of Aššur-bān-apli against Arab tribes after the quell of the revolt of Šamaš-šumukīn.2014, Markham J. Geller, Melammu: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization, epubli, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry quell
• Meanwhile, a group of loyal officers revolted and captured Xemu, locking him in the center of a mountain with an electric fence.2011, Hugh B. Urban, The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, Princeton University Press, page 103. From the entry Xemu
• Walesa had become a hero, and free Poland's natural choice for president, by leading the Gdansk-shipyard workers' revolt against communism more than a decade earlier.2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 185–186. From the entry Poland
• Total politicalism, the absorption of everything and of the entire man by politics is one and the same phenomenon of the revolt of the masses.2002, José Ortega y Gasset, Toward a Philosophy of History, page 71. From the entry politicalism
• The basic assumptions of our way of life as we traditionally justified it are being questioned by that revolt of the young absurdists.1973 March 18, Henri Peyre, “The Wine of Absurdity”, in The New York Times. From the entry absurdist
• On June 1 of the same year he again ordered his henchmen, Ma-tung and Chen Ju-chin, to lead a revolt in Chen-chia-fen, T’ung-hsin Hsien.[1972, Donald E. MacInnis, “Religion and Feudalism”, in Religious Policy and Practice in Communist China: A Documentary History, →ISBN…. From the entry Tongxin
• Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of lawing in the country.1923, Briton Hadden, Time - Volume 29, page 59. From the entry law

Meaning of revolt

1. verb To rebel, particularly against authority.
2. verb To repel greatly.
3. verb To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.

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How do you use revolt in a sentence?

Revolt is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.”

What is a short sentence with revolt?

“Your brother revolts me!”

What does revolt mean?

Revolt means to rebel, particularly against authority.