Definition: 1. A public act of violence by an unruly mob. 2. A state of disorder involving group violence. 3. A joke that seems extremely funny. 4. Take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot. 5. Engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making.
Use 'riot' in a sentence:
1. These riots should be a wake-up call for the government.
2. After the riot, 32 people were taken into police custody.
3. Twelve inmates have been killed during a riot at the prison.
4. The riots are a clear manifestation of the people's discontent.
5. There have been a number of clashes between police in riot gear and demonstrators.
6. As the riot police approached the crowd backed off.
7. The police were able to take preventive action and avoid a possible riot.
8. The riots raged for three days.
9. The march degenerated into a riot.
10. Innocent passers-by got caught up in the riots.
11. Conventional wisdom has it that riots only ever happen in cities.
12. The government will have to take the blame for the riots.
13. Cars and buses were set ablaze during the riot.
14. The state's worst prison riot will force a fundamental reappraisal of prison policy.
15. They hurled defiant taunts at the riot police, who responded in kind.
16. Ten prison officers and three inmates needed hospital treatment following the riot.
17. There were ugly scenes in the streets last night as rioting continued.
18. Something happened which almost caused a riot.
19. The police officer fended off the blows with his riot shield.
20. Riots led to the postponement of local elections.
21. After about 10 minutes the riot police arrived.
22. Riot police with shields were blocking the demonstrators' way.
23. Politicians accuse the media of talking up the possibility of a riot.
24. One prison guard was killed when a riot broke out in the jail.
25. The riot began as a peaceful protest.
26. The protest exploded into a riot.
27. There was a short period of uneasy calm after the riot.
28. The football riots made me ashamed to be English.
29. The military was/ were called in to deal with the riot.
30. This evidence meshes with earlier reports of an organized riot.
31. Ranks of police in riot gear stood nervously by.
32. About 100 officers in riot gear were needed to break up the fight.
33. Police in riot gear were in attendance as a precautionary measure.
34. Riot police are being deployed throughout the city to prevent any trouble.
35. Riot police hurled tear gas canisters and smoke bombs into the crowd.
36. Riot police used tear gas to break up the demonstration.
37. Order was quickly restored after the riots.
38. The garden was a riot of colour.
39. What began as a minor scuffle turned into a full-scale riot.
40. Rioting broke out in the capital.
41. Her death was the occasion of mass riots.
42. What precisely triggered off yesterday's riot is still unclear.
43. Last year's riots pale in comparison with this latest outburst of violence.
44. Hundreds of police in riot gear struggled to control the violence.
45. Riot police fired in the air and lashed out with clubs to disperse hundreds of demonstrators.
46. The riots were sparked off by the arrest of a local leader.
47. Six people were killed in the riot, including a policeman.
48. The town's only claim to fame is that there was once a riot there.
49. The sudden appearance of a few bags of rice could start a riot.
