6 sentences with 'erupted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word erupted and other words derived from it.
• « The great contrast in the Classical Age was between the power and splendour of the Greek polis, especially Athens and Sparta, and the wars and conflicts that erupted as they sought to expand their power and control. »
• « Unfortunately, almost as soon as he took the throne a volcano in southern Italy, Mount Vesuvius, erupted, followed soon after by another great fire as well as an epidemic in Rome. »
• « However, Henry V died quickly and the conflict erupted into a series of alliances and counter-alliances between rival factions of English and French nobles. »
• « Almost immediately, however, simmering resentment against the king's growing power erupted in a series of uprisings against the crown known as La Fronde, essentially a civil war led by the nobles against the monarchy (the rebels even formed a formal alliance with Spain). »
• « In turn, the main debate that erupted among the delegates was over the form of German nationalism to be adopted: should Germany be a "smaller German" state defined by German speakers and excluding Austria, or a "larger German" state including Austria and all its other ethnicities and languages? »
• « The great communist powers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the People's Republic of China loomed over a vast swathe of Eurasia, while smaller countries occasionally erupted in revolution. »