How to Use anti-riot in a Sentence

anti-riot

adjective
  • At the end of the march, some protesters threw firecrackers and crowd-control barriers at anti-riot police, who responded with water cannons and tear gas.
    — CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Videos the inmates took on Thursday morning from inside their cells showed heavily armed special troops, wearing anti-riot gear, standing and smoking outside.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Police parked anti-riot vehicles in a central Belgrade area to block the demonstrators from returning, and the violence soon ended.
    — Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • Police parked anti-riot vehicles in a central Belgrade area to block the demonstrators from returning and the violence soon ended.
    — CBS News, 23 May 2026
  • Hundreds of anti-riot police stormed Guatemala’s maximum-security Renovación prison to free guards held hostage by inmates and retake control of the facility.
    — Moisés Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Plainclothes security forces still milled around some neighborhoods, though anti-riot police and members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s all-volunteer Basij force appeared to have been sent back to their barracks.
    — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Hundreds of anti-riot police entered a maximum-security prison in Guatemala early Sunday to free guards taken hostage and retake control of the facility that houses gang leaders, and ensuing attacks on police in the capital left at least three officers dead.
    — Moisés Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Videos showed police beating back agitators with batons and deploying anti-riot ordnance as the demonstrators chanted against the country's conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in a massive political rally.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026

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