Synonym: brawl, mutiny, rebel, revolt, rise up. Antonym: peace. Similar words: period, prior, warrior, prior to, curious, various, scenario, priority. Meaning: ['raɪət] 
n. 1. a public act of violence by an unruly mob 2. a state of disorder involving group violence 3. a joke that seems extremely funny 4. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. v. 1. take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot 2. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking.
n. 1. a public act of violence by an unruly mob 2. a state of disorder involving group violence 3. a joke that seems extremely funny 4. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. v. 1. take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot 2. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking. 
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121, The police were able to take preventive action and avoid a possible riot.
122, The market square is a riot of colour and animation from early on in the morning.
123, The disturbance was repressed at last by the riot police.
124, The military was / were called in to deal with the riot.
125, During the riot, a police car was set ablaze.
126, A full scale riot was building.
127, What good were riot acts being read?
128, Police, many in riot gear, later separated the gangs.
129, Ducks are very beautiful, a riot of colour.
130, Riot police stood guard even in tiny back alleys.
131, That was when Turnberry George tried to show his movie, which damn near caused a riot.
132, Football fans were clubbed by riot police trying to stop the violence.
133, Women in a riot of beads, bandannas and provocative bustles followed to centre nave.
134, With the continuation of the disorders into 1968, the administration shifted its emphasis - to that of riot control.
135, For one thing, they planned for a riot and a wedding party broke out.
136, Hundreds of riot police on Nov. 2 clashed with students in Dhaka protesting against recent legislation to curb cheating in final exams.
137, Two lorries crammed with riot policemen arrived and fired tear-gas canisters, rapidly dispersing the small crowd, which included news photographers.
138, The second riot began just after 6 p.m. at a medium security dormitory.
139, Another 40 people are facing charges of riot and conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm.
140, But outside the battered congress building few passersby look twice at yet another standoff between demonstrators and riot police.
141, Clashes between riot police and demonstrators had broken out during a student demonstration outside the Education Ministry on Oct. 24.
142, Among them is a special riot force whose numbers may be one-third of the total.
143, Nearly all gone now, worse luck, and the guv'nor's arrived to read the riot act.
144, Warders in riot gear stormed the room after four hours and marched the 12 protesters to a segregation block.
145, The police were called in to quell the riot that ensued.
146, These findings suggest that media coverage did not play an influential role in encouraging people to participate in the Detroit riot.
147, The three middle chapters each consider individual crimes: cattle stealing,[www.Sentencedict.com] homicide and riot.
148, In the ensuing riot, a hut containing refugees seeking to flee the violence, mainly northerners, was set on fire.
149, Wednesday afternoon, riot police were out on the streets of Belgrade to enforce a ban on marches by anti-Milosevic demonstrators.
150, Some, as you know, seek revenge - they riot, they take drugs and generally make damned nuisances of themselves.