rioter

How To Use rioter In A Sentence

• All their neighbours had fled from that place even before the arrival of the rioters.
• The police fired teargas in the central shopping district to disperse the rioters, creating panic among shoppers.
• The police used a water cannon on the rioters and soon brought them to heel.
• The rioters burnt buses, barricaded the streets and torched their own houses. Times, Sunday Times
• The group of rioters dispersed only when armed police finally arrived. Times, Sunday Times
• After being honourably acquitted, he relumed his feat upon the bench, and made the following fpeech; which, confidered in a general way, is admirable both with refpecft to matter and form, though the propriety of applying it to the particular occafion may be queftioned, as the petitioners were neither rioters nor inlurgents, nor men who had othTwile violated the public peace. The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies.
• The merchant was generally offered a fair price for his bread or corn, and if he refused to accept it, rioters seized the goods, distributed them, and left the “fair” price in exchange. 1753
• Rioters caused havoc in the centre of the town.
• While Luther was still hidden in the Wartburg, the first iconoclastic rioters entered his own church in Wittenberg in January 1522 to tear down and destroy the paintings, statues and above all, the crucifixes.
• Rioters armed with firebombs set light to police barricades.