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Example sentences for "upheavals"

Lexicographically close words:
upgraded; upgrading; upgrowth; uphaud; upheaval; upheave; upheaved; upheaving; upheld; uphill
  1. Speaking generally, the economic structure of the Russian Jews experienced violent upheavals during the first years of Nicholas II.

  2. But soon amid the upheavals of this agitated period a fanatical spirit spread among the various sects of the Independents.

  3. The vacillations and upheavals in the position of the Jews were conditioned by the shifting of forces in the direction of the one or the other above-mentioned factors in the course of history.

  4. It was also, and the upheavals were also, a new manifestation to Rosalie of the all-importance of men.

  5. And then the chain of most startling upheavals began.

  6. The peace of every home in civilized society rests ultimately on the kitchen, and the peace of half the homes known to Harry and to Rosalie was in constant rupture by upheavals thence.

  7. From these lakes the volcanoes would be fed, and they would be the cause of earthquakes and land-upheavals or land-sinkings.

  8. The political conditions of the city several years ago gave birth to one of the periodic moral upheavals that resulted in the election of a strong, earnest, loyal, church-supporting citizen as Mayor.

  9. It would have to be a cataclysmic change indeed to be accepted as indisputable evidence that change is taking place on the moon, and the days of gigantic upheavals are probably over on our satellite as well as on the earth.

  10. Many of the gaseous vapors of the reversing layer are found in the chromosphere, thrown there continually by the vast upheavals of gases that are constantly disturbing the surface of the sun.

  11. The original granite upheavals in British America, and in New York and New England, seem never to have taken this plunge, except an area about Lake Superior which geologists say has gone down four or five times.

  12. Then we took things leisurely and comfortably, jumping tolerably wide and probably bottomless chasms, and threading our way through picturesque lava upheavals with considerable confidence.

  13. The atmospheric tide moved toward the Darkside, where it condensed, carrying enough volcanic ash with it for Sanderson to estimate the depth and nature of the surface upheavals on Brightside from his samplings.

  14. The trick was to find a passage that avoided those upheavals as far as possible.

  15. Notwithstanding local and relative upheavals the earth's surface on the whole has drawn nearer and nearer to the center.

  16. The result of these upheavals has been to superimpose new materials upon the older rocks, introducing extraneous rocks called Eruptive, beneath, upon, and amongst preceding deposits, in such a manner as to change their nature in divers ways.

  17. As a corollary to these, the hypothesis of the upheaval of the earth’s crust follows--upheavals having produced local revolutions.

  18. These upheavals were preceded by sudden and irregular movements of the elastic mass of the crust--by earthquakes, in short--phenomena which have been already sufficiently explained.

  19. Dry land has been largely increased here, during the present century, by subsidence of the waters and upheavals by earthquakes.

  20. What vast upheavals must have been necessary to elevate these fossils to such a height!

  21. In reference to the argument of the vast antiquity of the earth, founded on elevation of coasts at a given rate of upheaval, he adduces many facts to show that upheavals of equal extent have occurred almost within the memory of man.

  22. With the wars and rumours of wars that threaten the great nations from without and the wild upheavals that threaten them within, it would be foolish to hide from ourselves the drift of events.

  23. However it be, no one can deny that in all the present upheavals it is at least practical to discuss the ethics of revolt.

  24. Upheavals of strata and disruptions may be the work of but a short time, or they may be more gradual.

  25. Vast masses of water would in time be formed on one hand, and solid mineral masses on the other; the latter would contract as cooling progressed, causing great upheavals and depressions and contortions of strata.

  26. There would be such cooler regions throughout the Jurassic, and we saw that there were considerable upheavals of land towards its close.

  27. How far this repeated levelling of the land after its repeated upheavals is due to a real sinking of the crust we cannot as yet determine.

  28. One of the greatest of these upheavals of the land occurs in the latter half of the Carboniferous and the Permian.

  29. These tidal waves were due to volcanic upheavals somewhere; and it was found that the centre of disturbance had been in the Atlantic near the coast of Portugal, and the time some hours earlier than the waves were felt at Bridgetown.

  30. It is difficult to produce a fair picture of the political upheavals and complications which eventually led to and resulted in so much bloodshed without going behind the actual outbreak of the feud.

  31. It is difficult in such social upheavals to get at the unvarnished truth.

  32. It is by these upheavals and convulsions of the solar atmosphere that the light and heat are maintained which illumine and vivify the worlds that gravitate round the Sun.

  33. They have been compared to immense waves--vast upheavals of photospheric matter, indicative of enormous pressure, and often extending in length for many thousands of miles.

  34. It is among the principal factors of all the incessant political upheavals of the last century in France.

  35. We observe their influence during several of the upheavals of history, notably during the course of the French Revolution, which will furnish us with most of our examples.

  36. The conflict between the principles dividing France, which has lasted more than a century, will doubtless continue for a long time yet, and no one can foresee what fresh upheavals it may engender.

  37. This form of tyranny may be regarded as a racial ideal, since successive upheavals of France have only fortified it.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upheavals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.