Sentence examples for riots of from inspiring English sources

A literal helicopter drop would lead to riots, of course.

He had tried it already, before the riots of 2004.

After the riots of 1967, whites fled the city.

Recitals, by contrast, are controlled riots of communication.

The riots of 1968 left burned buildings in their wake.

Fiction based on New York's draft riots of 1863.

For example, think back to the summer riots of 2011.

But have the riots of last week threatened its bid?

Nobody died in the riots of 1981 [see footnote].

As have the Hindu-Muslim riots of partition.

When the armory was completed in 1880, Scribner's Monthly recounted that the Seventh had served in putting down the abolition riots of 1834, the stevedore riots of 1836, the flour riots of 1837, the Croton water riots of 1840 and the Astor Place riots of 1849, in which 30 demonstrators were killed and 141 of the 200 soldiers called out were injured.