Riot Act Definition

Riot Act Sentence Examples

• I was reading them the riot act and they weren't believing it any more than they ever do, except for maybe the first-timers.

• Skippy must have read her the riot act.

• Both The Riot Act and The Cure at Troy remain inseparable from their immediate political contexts.

• The proprietor applied to the Mayor who exercised himself to quell the tumult by swearing in two constables and reading the Riot Act.

• An attempt was made by a party of yeomanry The to arrest a popular agitator, Henry Hunt; the angry Man- mob surged round the horsemen, who found themselves chester powerless; the Riot Act was read, and the I5th Massacre.