Sentence examples for a storming of from inspiring English sources

A four-day standoff was followed by a storming of the prison that left forty-three dead, making it the bloodiest prison riot in American history.

A Boston reporter pictured one Federal opera performance as a storming of the Bastille: "Drivers, chauffeurs, and footmen were occupying the seats of the master and the madame at 83 cents a chair".

Then came the crucial decision: If Mr. Sadr did not back down, American officials said, Ayatollah Sistani assured them that he would support a storming of the shrine by Iraqi troops.

Years before David Stern's global expansion resulted in a storming of the N.B.A. gates by Europeans and now even Asians with attitude, Petrovic told his friend, Miocic, who had immigrated to New York from Croatia in 1986: "Mario, I never think, 'Oh, good, I've opened the door to European players and now I am going to sit on the bench and be happy.

It was not quite another Chilean coup d'état but it was certainly a storming of the barricades when a few dozen Chile fans rushed past an overwhelmed security, knocking over gates, and ran into the press room, breaking a glass door and tearing down a partition on their way.

Besides the Occupy movement, it was a student protest group called Scholarism led by 17-year-old Joshua Wong - who had earlier protested against pro-party patriotic education in Hong Kong public schools - that catalysed the occupation with a boycott of classes and a storming of government headquarters.

A storm of protest erupted.

Westbrook faced a storm of opposition.

There was a storm of applause.

The poem provoked a storm of protest.

A storm of controversy followed.