How to Use putsch in a Sentence

putsch

noun

• The leader of that putsch, Prayuth Chan-ocha, is still prime minister.
  — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2020
• Neither the outcome of the putsch nor the fate of the resistance is preordained.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2021
• The fact that Trump and his top cronies won't be punished for the Jan. 6 putsch has only emboldened them.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Jan. 2022
• Gulen denies involvement in the putsch, in which some 250 people were killed.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2020
• And so an insurrection in the name of Jesus Christ broke out in tandem with the Trump voter fraud putsch.
  — Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
• The number of lèse-majesté cases has exceeded 100 since the putsch.
  — Feliz Solomon, Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• Tonight, with Capitol Hill in the throes of an attempted putsch, an answer has arrived.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
• This may be the biggest obstacle to a boardroom putsch, and a reason that hedge funds seldom get very far in tech takeovers.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 4 Mar. 2020
• Going suddenly from Chernenko to Gorbachev, and then the putsch, the tanks in Moscow, the first nightclubs in Moscow, the first trips abroad.
  — Emmanuel Carrère, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• That was the narrative that followed the putsches in Mali and Burkina Faso, and the same story seems to be playing out in Niger.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Protests erupted within a week after the putsch and have continued almost daily in the six months since.
  — Feliz Solomon, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2021
• The same gesture was adopted after the putsch in Myanmar, the leitmotif of a protest movement millions strong.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
• In the face of public demonstrations against them, their putsch soon failed, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union itself.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• The putsch came less than three months later, and the country’s top leaders were quickly rounded up and imprisoned.
  — Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
• The generals who led the putsch said that protecting the palace from critics was one of their major reasons for doing so.
  — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• The 15-member bloc has taken a hard line against Mali since the putsch, shutting borders and halting financial flows.
  — Katarina Hoije, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• For all the planning that went into the putsch, the generals seem to have been utterly unprepared for the breadth and depth of resistance against them.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Opponents decried the dismissal of the government and the freezing of parliament as a putsch.
  — Washington Post, 25 July 2021
• The dramatic putsch ended Saturday when Prigozhin reached a deal with the Kremlin and halted the convoy about 120 miles south of Moscow.
  — Time, 26 June 2023
• The murky origins and circumstances of the putsch are still the subject of fevered debate, and Gulen's mooted extradition to his homeland seems nowhere in sight.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 17 July 2017
• And while the coup-plotters allowed supporters to mass in the streets, many Nigeriens bitterly oppose their putsch.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• But any trace of American involvement in the putsch had been wiped from the report, causing historians to call it a fraud.
  — Jon Gambrell, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
• Even before the putsch, the country was almost entirely closed because of the coronavirus.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• That led to his ouster by another putsch in August 1983 headed by his own defense minister.
  — Sonia Perez D., USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2018
• The implicit message was that some Trump loyalists—those with a remaining shred of honor—drew a line in the sand over the violence and the Proud Boys’ putsch on January 6.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 28 June 2022
• Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has celebrated the putsch and offered to help the country’s new leaders.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• Turkey’s president already had a taste for hounding opponents long before the abortive putsch of 2016.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Were the events that day an attempted putsch or an extravagant fit of democratic passions?
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
• The coup against the state could be read as an anticolonial revolution, but the alt-right interprets it as a nationalist putsch against a pacifist state.
  — Shaan Amin, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
• In a human rights report released on March 15, the United Nations accused the military junta of unleashing mass war crimes on its own people in the aftermath of the putsch.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024