How to Use riot in a Sentence

riot

1 of 2 noun
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  • The news about the election caused a riot in the city.
  • The woods are a riot of color in the autumn.
  • The movie was an absolute riot.
  • A lot of property was damaged in the recent riots.
  • While the song played, a huge screen showed scenes of the riot at the Capitol.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The Army has described the kind of device found as a riot control hand grenade.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 5 June 2023
  • As of this month, more than 1,200 people have been charged for roles in the Capitol riot.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • When the curtain came up on the Russells later that evening, a riot almost broke out in the venue.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2023
  • However, a riot at the prison forced it to shutter in 2003, the Desert Sun reports.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • There’s green, and then there’s Hawaii green, a riot of greenesses.
    — Tom Bentley, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • As the riots begin, the brothers are pulled into a day of chaos and confusion.
    — Joshua Ocampo, Men's Health, 9 May 2023
  • His breakthrough came in 1967, in the aftermath of the Detroit riot that summer.
    — Clay Risen, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Smith did not charge Trump with seditious conspiracy, a charge that was used against leaders of the on-the-ground riots.
    — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In December, 2001, riots broke out in Buenos Aires and other cities.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Raskin went on to serve on the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
    — Adam Carlson, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • So far, 29 people with Georgia ties have been charged with crimes relating to the Jan. 6 riot.
    — Chris Joyner The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
  • During the January 6th riots, though, Gaetz found a different way to make the news.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The bureau was looking for people involved in the riot at the U.S. Capitol more than two years prior.
    — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Steal rally on Jan. 6, and the riot that ultimately ensued.
    — Rafi Schwartz, The Week, 4 May 2023
  • The solo cello drums a duet with drummer in the percussion section, and that brings on a riot of metal.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • That would be the longest sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
    — Michael Kunzelman The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The valet also testified about the contrast between the reaction of White House staffers and Mr. Trump as the riot was underway.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The numbers smashed records and notably spiked at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 before jumping yet again in June of that year as protests and riots spread across the nation in response to the death of Floyd.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The 2012 London Games was dominated by fears that the city would be overrun by riots that broke out the previous summer.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • There was no reason this couldn’t be done: The riot damage on January 6 was minimal.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
  • At the time of the riot, Schwartz was on probation for domestic abuse and threatening domestic abuse.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Peter Schwartz's prison sentence is the longest so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 May 2023
  • Ultimately the pair failed to win financial restitution for their clients, the courts holding that too much time had passed since the riots for their claims to have merit.
    — Joseph P. Kahn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot.
    — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • California After ’92 riots, L.A. bought land in Watts and promised jobs.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
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riot

2 of 2 verb
  • Students rioted after their team lost the football game.
  • This isn't our side that's going to riot in the streets.
    — Scott Bauer, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The crowd was angry and ready to riot, and turned over two police cars in the street.
    — al, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The Stonewall riot 50 years ago is seen to have triggered the gay rights movement.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • That year, all through Jerusalem, all through the Holy Land, there was rioting.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • As time went on, the colonist mob grew and the mob rioted and attacked a British sentinel.
    — Fox News, 24 Feb. 2020
  • If a call like that went against Boston, Sox fans would riot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2021
  • As a matter of fact, the masses are rioting over the way he was written out of the series.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Others have seized on the message and offered their own calls to riot at malls.
    — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 31 May 2020
  • But Democrats encourage people to riot and protest in the streets.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Caught between the collapse of wages and the loss of land, peasants rioted across Europe.
    — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Detainees there have rioted, staged hunger strikes, and sewn their lips shut.
    — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • During the vote-counting process, the MDC staged sit-ins in downtown Harare, and groups rioted and vandalized parts of the city.
    — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
  • In the novel, the chemical reliance becomes so strong that when there is a shortage, the people riot.
    — Blaine Cooper, Star Tribune, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Quentin Cash of San Diego quickly took him into custody on a charge of inciting to riot.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Police say men linked to a White supremacist group planned to riot.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 15 June 2022
  • Police charged all 31 with conspiracy to riot on the day of a gay pride parade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
    — Sara Sidner, CNN, 3 July 2022
  • Morin had already dismissed the conspiracy to riot charge against the three on Thursday.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 2 June 2018
  • The group was apparently planning to riot at the event, and police have even received death threats since the arrest of these members.
    — Darreonna Davis, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • The crowd began to riot and five people were killed, many were injured and arrests in connection to the event continue.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Israeli settlers rioted on Sunday evening in response to the shooting, setting dozens of cars and homes on fire in the northern West Bank.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • At this same time, the people of Germany are likely still rioting over the economic collapse.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Jennie Neufeld Why do prisoners strike or riot because of the 13th Amendment?
    — Jennie Neufeld, Vox, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Bolton also plans to tell lawmakers there was a lack of consensus about the reality of the threat leading up to riot.
    — Whitney Wild, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Authorities found that the group was planning to riot in several areas of downtown, not just the park.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • In 1968 students in Rome were rioting two months before ever a cobblestone was thrown in Paris.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Police arrested 31 men suspected of conspiring to riot in the city’s downtown on the same day as a scheduled and nearby Pride in the Park event.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 12 June 2022
  • Fans might riot if Jaime or Tyrion (or her unborn baby) don't somehow end up choking the life out of her as payback for the many, many people she's killed.
    — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Francesconi said the government lacks evidence showing Bantista threw a rock or came to Portland to riot.
    — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2020
  • A few weeks later, inmates rioted at prisons across the country, terrified that they were trapped with the virus, and guards opened fire, killing at least thirty-five.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 18 May 2020

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