rebellion

Example Sentences

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India on Monday declared the country free of the Maoist insurgency, fulfilling a long-standing deadline to defeat the decades-long rebellion.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

And as off-putting as it may be, this rebellion from pleasant form is innately, delightfully feminine.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

The political passions that drove the American rebellion against Great Britain were hard to control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Franks says she sometimes felt like jokes were being made about her so she started doing stand-up comedy, "in a kind of rebellion to that".

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

And not rebellion as it was now, with rebel groups hiding out in the wilderness, but rather rebellion in the sense of entire kingdoms rising up against Adarlan—as it should have been from the start.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas