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 Meanings and Examples of REVOLUTIONARY
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revolutionary
 a.  marked by new or introducing radical change
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
2  Waterloo, by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in another direction.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
3  The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was involuntarily revolutionary.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
4  At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain revolutionary quiver was vaguely current.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5  A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
6  One would have said, to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary apocalypse.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
7  There is the religious mine, the philosophical mine, the economic mine, the revolutionary mine.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
8  We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical excavation.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
9  They have a revolutionary grandeur.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
10  Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with indescribably vague epileptic shocks.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
11  Moreover, the revolutionary fever was growing.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
12  All had a revolutionary society which was called the Cougourde.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
13  The revolutionary sense is a moral sense.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
14  Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg Saint-Marceau.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
15  These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
Example Sentence:
1  Some patients are receiving what has been billed as a revolutionary treatment.
2  The violence of the revolutionary years was justifiable on the grounds of political necessity.
3  The worker was labelled as a revolutionary.
4  It is highly important that we combine revolutionary sweep with practicalness.
5  If we could identify these revolutionary movements in their nascent state, we would be able to eliminate serious trouble in later years.
6  The transition from a rural agrarian to an urban lifestyle merits applying the term revolutionary to the process of industrialization.
7  How did a man from such a privileged background become involved in revolutionary politics?