How to Use revolution in a Sentence

revolution

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  • The king knew that there was a threat of revolution.
  • The group started a revolution.
  • The period of revolution of the Earth around the Sun is equal to one year.
  • This new theory could cause a revolution in elementary education.
  • The Earth makes one revolution on its axis in about 24 hours.
  • This motor operates at a speed of 5,000 revolutions per minute.
  • What is new in the last few years is the DNA revolution.
    — Robert Plomin, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The plastic seats along the sides of the cars were red, the color of revolution.
    — William Neuman, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And so far, in the robopet revolution, cute seems to cut it.
    — Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 1 July 2019
  • But now the Bay Area is at the center of the fake meat revolution.
    — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The past two decades have been a time of peaceful revolution in the movies.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2021
  • There will be calls for the overhaul of the squad, for a new coach, for revolution.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
  • And who, these days, doesn’t want to be part of a revolution?
    — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 8 June 2019
  • Earth’s rotation gives us the day, its revolution around the sun gives us the year, and its dance with the moon gives us the month.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 22 May 2019
  • In the face of unbridled fear and anger, joy is the revolution.
    — Jessamyn Stanley, SELF, 7 Sep. 2020
  • But Rigolon said the movement doesn’t need to be a revolution.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • In today’s world, the best examples are the Web3 revolution and the rise of AI.
    — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • At the time, many on the new left thought a revolution was imminent.
    — John B. Judis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • This is the revolution that Bernie Sanders and his ilk have worked toward.
    — WSJ, 15 June 2021
  • The open source revolution has been carried on the backs of some very weary people.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Much has been made about the treatment of the press in this age of protest, of dissent, daresay of revolution.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 4 June 2020
  • With the advent of the information revolution, the game and the stakes have changed.
    — Jason Christopher, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Why not start your revolution with the biggest name in the stable?
    — Sam Smith, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Mike Munchak didn’t have a front-row seat for the revolution.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The question now is how much support the revolution has lost with each round.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The band has been begging for revolution for three decades.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2022
  • He was born in the dark years of the revolution: the era of walls, sandbags, fortified basements, and closed doors.
    — Kareem Abdulrahman, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • One, the juicier balls in recent years have spurred a revolution of go-for-broke swingers.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators aspire to bring about a conceptual revolution of the sort that rocked physics in the late 1700s.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The country’s revolution inspired millions of people across the Middle East to rise up against their own autocrats.
    — Sarah E. Yerkes, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024

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