REVOLUTION in a Sentence

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113 example sentences for REVOLUTION, such as:

1. This very small change had effected a revolution.
2. A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real.
3. He became a national hero for his part in the revolution.
4. The revolution caused a radical reformation of the society.
5. He will steer a middle course between pacifism and revolution.

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 Meanings and Examples of REVOLUTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
revolution
 n.  act of revolving; motion of body round a fixed point or line; rotation; total or radical change; fundamental change in political organization
Classic Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  This very small change had effected a revolution.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKE...
2  If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
3  This terror was the result of the quantity of revolution which was contained in him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
4  A metaphysical school of the North, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the word Will.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
5  Despot but dictator; a despot resulting from a republic and summing up a revolution.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
6  He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we have just described was effected within him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
7  In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his father.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
8  It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines progress.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
9  This strange revolution had hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the honor of treating it as an enemy, and of shedding its blood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
10  As soon as a revolution has made the coast, the skilful make haste to prepare the shipwreck.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
11  In this way, say they, peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair the house, can be had after a revolution.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
12  A composite individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the past with the future.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
13  In the establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
14  Every revolution, being a normal outcome, contains within itself its legitimacy, which false revolutionists sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives even when stained with blood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
15  A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  According to the official figures, over one thousand people died during the revolution.
2  The industrial revolution modified the whole structure of English society.
3  Unprecedented change has been the keynote of the electronic revolution.
4  The publishers claim that the book constitutes 'the first sequential exposition of events and thus of the history of the revolution'.
5  Credit cards have brought about a revolution in people's spending habits.
6  Most of them were promoted during the " cultural revolution " and they have their own vested interests.
7  For the specter of world revolution still haunts world capitalism, and the Yankee bomb is its ultimate defense.
8  The accepted principle was that you should not define your cause before starting the revolution.
9  His talk will examine the wider implications of the Internet revolution.
10  He will steer a middle course between pacifism and revolution.
11  He became a national hero for his part in the revolution.
12  The period since the revolution has been one of political turmoil.
13  The prospects for the country are fairly evenly balanced between peaceful reform and revolution.
14  It was very difficult to encapsulate the story of the revolution in a single one-hour documentary.
15  The revolution caused a radical reformation of the society.