What is "riots"

Usage examples of "riots".

Seminole my father is sleeping on a gun that has just been recommissioned, because the riots have begun .

Shortly after the riots, like many other white Detroiters, my parents began looking for a house in the suburbs.

Detroit riots will always be connected in my mind with my first sight of the aroused male genitalia.

As he did, the riots, his frayed nerves, the smell of fire in the air, and the audacity of this man Morrison dodging sniper fire for a pack of cigarettes all became too much for Milton.

Along Jefferson, signs of the riots still remained, as did my unanswered questions.

Jheled-Kaarn had become the rallying slogans of spontaneous riots in cities across Earth.

Burchardt was killed by one of those robber barons while leading an assault on his keep, and the Social Police rapid-response squads had eventually crushed the rioters, but the Caste Riots remained a chilling reminder of the mesmeric influence Actors could exert over their audiences.

The riots outside gave the eveni gaming a festive, insular atmosphere, a carnival spice, as the nothing done here tonight could have any relation to everyday a sense that here was a small island of brightly indecent pleas in the midst of a huge and bloody ocean of night.

With the impressment riots against the British still remembered, impressment of seamen by the American navy was taking place by 1779.

And so the draft riots of 1863 took place, uprisings of angry whites in northern cities, their targets not the rich, far away, but the blacks, near at hand.

David Montgomery, historian of the Kensington Riots, was the fragmentation of the Philadelphia working class.

Negroes being lynched, observed murderous riots against blacks in Statcshoro, Georgia, Brownsville, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, and did nothing.

There were strikes, petitions, mass meetings, refusal to sign loyalty oaths, riots against the camp authorities.

There were riots also in Rochester, Jersey City, Chicago, Philadelphia.

In the 1967 riots in Detroit, three black teen-agers were killed in the Algiers Motel.