How to Use rabble in a Sentence

rabble

noun
Definition of rabblenext
Synonyms for rabblenext
  • The rabble on the wrong side of the law was now the law.
    — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The dogs of war were baying, bloody chaos was let loose, And high above the rabble rose a scaffold and a noose.
    — John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • How about a flying coach who doesn’t teach you how to be a pilot but how to mix with the rabble?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2021
  • When the rabble show up with pitchforks and torches, the queen comes to the balcony and quiets them.
    — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 23 June 2017
  • The outgoing party chairman had to step in and ask the rabble to show some respect.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 May 2021
  • What Ed is not, in this instance at least, is a rabble-rouser without a cause.
    — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The last cellblock has fallen and now Trump's rabble of inmates are running the asylum.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
  • But the rabble-rousing spirit of that stealth semester is still alive and still kicking the status quo.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The Labour party was, at that point, a disorganized rabble.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Here, the son has run out of funds and been expelled from a brothel by an angry rabble, most likely prostitutes, wielding a broom and spear, and a guard with a sword.
    — Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • On occasion, priests have led the crowds, giving them the appearance more of a giant church choir than an angry rabble.
    — S.r. | Shanghai, The Economist, 14 June 2019
  • Now, the prospect of the rabble-rousing Meloni taking power seems more likely than ever.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
  • Fortunately, there is a voice of sanity among the rabble.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2012
  • And the answer, according to the website animalsandenglish.com, is that groups of butterflies may be referred to as a flight, a flutter, a kaleidoscope, a rabble, a shimmer, a swarm, and a wing.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2022
  • But Sanders is a proud rabble-rouser, and that could be simpatico with the African-American power broker.
    — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2015
  • Most of the students involved, even the cynical politicos and the high-spirited rabble-rousers, seem pleasant and engaged.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2020
  • In Kobach’s world, white, God-fearing Americans are under assault from the brown, unhinged rabble.
    — Eric Armstrong, New Republic, 7 July 2017
  • Can our current rabble of loud difference still be governed?
    — David W. Blight Max-O-Matic, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Tucks was a rabble of Loyola University dudes, who didn't believe Carnival needed to be a stodgy old man's game.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The question has always been, Which Trump will win out: the nationalist rabble-rouser or the avatar of global capitalism?
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2017
  • That’s part of the reason for our decade-old retreat to apps, where McModern design and the illusion of walls seems like a hedge against the malware and rabble of the original web metropolis.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2017
  • In the 17th and 18th centuries, giants were strongly associated with members of the noble class, who could gaze straight at them from their balconies while the common rabble massed in the streets below.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 3 July 2018
  • Since then, Lai's role as one of Hong Kong's most prominent rabble-rousers has threatened his fortune, subjected him to death threats and made him a symbol of the city's tensions with mainland China.
    — Jenni Marsh, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
  • One-time rabble-rouser Nivellen brings up stories of their old adventures together; how is the hard-drinking Geralt now a dad?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The mosquito emoji will join the rabble of emoji wildlife including butterflies, bees, whales and rabbits.
    — Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The Chronicle, which had been a mainstream Republican outlet but now went all in on the rabble-rousing demagogue.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2021
  • There wasn’t just the rise of Newt Gingrich, his congressional rabble-rousers and freelance partisanship.
    — The Hive, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Some UX proponents have realized this trap and reframed their design practice as a dialectic between the gifted and the rabble.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017
  • In these cases, the threat of mob violence, or the simple fact of a mob demand, is sufficient to get those with power to act as the mob wishes, to do the mob’s dirty work for it and thereby relieve the rabble of the exertion of a riot.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 6 June 2019
  • Patterson said that every year there are crashers, who merely slip into a red frock and join the rabble without paying the registration fee.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 1 Aug. 2017

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