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How to use rebellion in a sentence

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Rebellion means armed resistance to an established government or ruler. Example: “The government is doing its best to stop rebellion in the country.”

Examples of rebellion by meaning

nounArmed resistance to an established government or ruler.

  • The government is doing its best to stop rebellion in the country.

nounDefiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.

  • Having a tattoo was Mathilda's personal rebellion against her parents.

nounAn organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

  • The army general led a successful rebellion and became president of the country.
  • District 7 notably detonated landmines and killed a large group of Peacekeepers while the 75th Hunger Games were going on, signaling to the Capitol the district was joining others in a rebellion against its repressive rule.2023 November 30, Colin McCormick, Allison Gemmill, “Hunger Games Panem Map Guide: Every Location Explained”, in Screen Rant, archived from...

More sentences with rebellion

  • Rome used crucifixions as a deterrent, and standard for the 'vilest' crimes, such as slave rebellion.From the entry crucifixion
  • Many Roman citizens were proscribed for taking part in rebellions.From the entry proscribe
  • There are whispers of rebellion all around.From the entry whisper
  • He acted as an informer during the rebellion.From the entry informer
  • Feminists for the 99 percent do not operate in isolation from other movements of resistance and rebellion.2019, Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser, Tithi Bhattacharya, Feminism for the 99 Percent, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry 99 percent
  • Gaddafi's calls for unity and stability are at odds with his track record of backing rebellions.2011 February 22, Alex Perry, “Libyan Leader's Delusions of African Grandeur”, in Time. From the entry track record
  • Most religious communities' central problem is not teen rebellion but teenagers' benign “whateverism.”2005, Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul searching: the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers, →DOI, →ISBN. From the entry whateverism
  • His sartorial rebellions were slight: he wore jeans, for example, when giving tutorials.2001 December 21, Jay Parini, “By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, B24. From the entry sartorial
  • It could signal artistic ferment, a youth hangout, rebellion, or an alternative lifestyle.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order. From the entry ferment
  • This militancy makes resistance into counterpower and makes rebellion into a project of love.2000, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Empire, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 413. From the entry biopolitics
  • Espinas, in his rebellion against one philosophy, constructed a counterphilosophy as much as a social science.1998, John I. Brooks, The eclectic legacy, page 99. From the entry counterphilosophy
  • Rand refused to detach even a seemingly radical rebellion from the social totality in which it emerged.1995, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 328. From the entry antirational
  • Their rebellion . . . translated their dispossession into the free possessionlessness of childhood.1992, Francesca Polletta, “Politicizing Childhood: The 1980 Zurich Burns Movement”, in Social Text, number 33, page 95. From the entry possessionlessness
  • And when the rebellion comes, I will be at the forefront, Parker and Waterman in hand.”1990 January 12, “Answering Back”, in The Boston Phoenix, published 13 January 1995, page 8. From the entry penpersonship
  • Hu had been supportive of Chiang's role throughout the northern expedition and the quell of southern rebellion.1978, Shiu Heng Chook, Chiang Kai-shek Close-up: A Personal View. From the entry quell
  • Beginning in antiquity, it narrates wars, wanderings, the diasporae, rebellions, persecutions, individual and collective triumphs and survivals.1966, Publishers Weekly, volume 189, page 81, column 2. From the entry diasporae
  • Young Major Leonard, with only one arm (the other lost during the Boxer rebellion in China), Mr.1937, Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, pages 113–114. From the entry Boxer Rebellion
  • The old-time Chinese magistrate of Fu-k’ang told us of the sufferings of his flock in the rebellion.1937, Eric Teichman, “Across the T’ien Shan to Urumchi”, in Journey to Turkistan, London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, →OCLC, page 98. From the entry Fu-k'ang
  • The terrible spectacle drove for the instant all thought of rebellion from my mind.1929 October–December, Robert E[rvin] Howard, “Skull-Face”, in Weird Tales, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC…. From the entry fiendishly
  • These passages refer, of course, to the rebellion of An Lu-shan.1922, Shigeyoshi Obata, transl., Li Po, the Chinese Poet, page 180. From the entry Lo-yang
  • The quell of the rebellion raised Justinian to the acme of power.1903, Knowledge: A Monthly Record of Science. From the entry quell
  • Lieberman was the first stage of the Hadrianic persecutions before the "decrees of destruction" (gezeirot hashmad) during the Bar Kokhba rebellion.2024, David Golinkin, “Are Thee Ways Of Hidinng A Mezuzah In Times Of Danger?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 208. From the entry Hadrianic
  • Rebellion against the mass market had mass-market appeal, she believed.2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic. From the entry mass market
  • In the end, however, rebellion must exhaust itself.2016, David Bentley Hart, “Charles Baudelaire: From within the Veil”, in Kenneth Oakes, editor, Christian Wisdom Meets Modernity…. From the entry ebullience
  • I did my share of rebellion and hi-jinx.2014 August 27, Kent Bell, “Hi-jinx Stories”, in Look Ma, No Hands, No Legs Either, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry high jinks
  • The growers’ rebellion against E-Verify, and Mr.2011 October 27, “So Much for the Nativists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2025. From the entry nativist
  • Almost forgotten is the rebellion in which lowriding was born.2007 November 18, Phil Patton, “Inches Above the Road and in The Man's Face”, in New York Times. From the entry lowriding
  • An inner voice holds the strangeling back from blasphemy against his own origin, even though he is filled with rebellion.2000, Zafer Şenocak, Leslie A. Adelson, Atlas of a Tropical Germany. From the entry strangeling
  • These men were not likely to be the quashers of protest, of new ideas, of rebellion against outdated orthodoxies.1996, Juliet Dusinberre, Shakespeare and the nature of women, page 13. From the entry quasher
  • In the alternative rock world, cutecore was a rebellion against the dogmatic noise and macho posturing of hardcore punk.1995, Newsweek, page 57. From the entry cutecore
  • Also, Civi has rebellions (oh, does it ever..1995 November 17, sshah@intranet.on.ca [Sunir Shah], “Network's effect on turn-based strategy game”, in rec.games.design (Usenet)…. From the entry Civi
  • Peking may be testing a four-decade-old boundary in the Taiwan Strait after Taipei ended the "period of communist rebellion" in May.1991 June 27, “Crossing the Line”, in Far Eastern Economic Review, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2. From the entry Davis Line
  • Rebellion at the end of the electric outlet.1988 February 2, Dr. Odd, “Cyberhackers”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID <2899@cup.portal.com>. From the entry hackproof
  • Cora kept edging off, her frown dark with impotent rebellion.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 200. From the entry squaller
  • A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.2006, Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus, →ISBN, page 390. From the entry squash
  • In honor of this great victory for the Jewish rebellion, the custom is to eat cheese blintses and other dairy foods on Hanukkah.1997, Reudor, “The Women of Hanukkah”, in The Doodle Family Hanukkah, Huntington Beach, Calif.: Atara Publishing, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry blintse

Meaning of rebellion

  1. noun Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
  2. noun Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.
  3. noun An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

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Questions about rebellion in a sentence

How do you use rebellion in a sentence?
Rebellion is used as a noun. For example: “The government is doing its best to stop rebellion in the country.”
What is a short sentence with rebellion?
“The growers’ rebellion against E-Verify, and Mr.”
What does rebellion mean?
Rebellion means armed resistance to an established government or ruler.

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