Sentence examples for Revolting from inspiring English sources
The word "Revolting" is correct in written English
It is typically used to describe something that is extremely unpleasant or disgusting. Example: "The smell coming from the garbage was absolutely revolting."
verb
Present participle of revolt
- The peasants are revolting!
The Irish, just like the post-68 student generations, are no longer revolting.
Rich countries in the north like Finland and the Netherlands – Angela Merkel's coalition too in state elections – are revolting against the tax burdens they feel they bear to bail out the "profligate" south.
Greece is sun-kissed for most of the year, and yet those long periods of blue skies have failed to stop the Greeks from revolting.
A promotional video aimed at foreign buyers had to be taken down almost immediately after it was attacked on Twitter as "nauseating" and "absolutely revolting".
If this was supposed to be the anointment of Jonathan Sexton as the peerless king of European rugby, a few Welsh peasants were positively revolting.
There are revolting dribbles of semen.
When Isis began decapitations, people started to curse those who had revolted against the regime.
Before police carted them off, the members of Pussy Riot managed to shout their way through a minute-long punk anthem: "Revolt in Russia – the charisma of protest / Revolt in Russia, Putin's got scared!" Formed days after Vladimir Putin's announcement in September that he intended to return to the presidency, Pussy Riot have become the latest symbol of young Russian discontent.
Related: Republicans drop abortion vote after revolt by female House members Supporters of the bill had hoped it would be passed on Thursday to coincide with the March for Life, a huge anti-abortion gathering held on the Mall each year to mark the anniversary of the supreme court's 1973 ruling to legalise abortion, Roe v Wade.
As the Lib Dem leader faces a growing revolt after this week's violent protest against fee rises, internal documents show the party was drawing up proposals for coalition negotiations which contrasted sharply with Clegg's public pronouncements.
In 1934, the Spanish army put down an independence revolt led by the then Catalan leader, Lluís Companys, which added to simmering tension before the 1936-39 civil war.
