Sentence examples for rioter from inspiring English sources

The word "rioter" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who participates in a violent act during a public gathering, usually as a form of protest. For example, "The police arrested dozens of rioters involved in the disturbance".

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rioter

noun

One who riots; part of the unruly violent crowd causing a riot.

  • The rioters had erected a makeshift barricade and were pelting the police with rocks from behind it.

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Related: Baltimore rioter turned himself in – but his family can't afford a $500,000 bail sum The report comes as police revealed a previously undisclosed stop made by the van after Gray's arrest had been discovered by investigators, and senior officers announced they had completed a criminal inquiry into his death.

It is fair to say that the brazen rioter in the hoodie is part of a sub-culture in Northern Ireland that is partly addicted to what is called "recreational rioting" – a social phenomena that is as nihilistic and undirected as the violence and the vandalism that tore through England this summer.

One rioter, camouflaged in the ubiquitous uniform of hoodie and football scarf, zigzagged through a hail of plastic bullets to attack a giant white painted water cannon.

One rioter was shot dead, many non-violent protesters and police bloodied.

In "Thanda Gosht" ("Cold Flesh" or "Cold Meat"), a rioter recounts the story of how he abducted a "beautiful" woman only to discover later that she had been dead for sometime.

During the recent prosecution of an 11-year-old rioter in Highbury, London, she was forced to complete her sketch in a hairdresser's salon, after court security turfed her out of the lobby.

Last weekend's G8 summit in Genoa saw two days of violent riot and police reaction that left one rioter shot dead, maybe 300 people about two-thirds protesters, one-third policemen with injuries, and unquantified damage to businesses, buildings and other property.

Policemen force a rioter into a police car on 12th August 1965.

The footage shows him accepting a bottle of champagne from a rioter who had just looted the supermarket he was standing outside.

We met a few days before the first rioter threw the first brick, when violence in the form of terrorism seemed more of a threat to the smooth running of the 2012 Olympics.

Every time a cushy job was handed to an insider, in my opinion, a rioter was born.

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