insurrection

How To Use insurrection In A Sentence

• Some might say, at worst, armed insurrection. Times, Sunday Times
• Throughout the whole insurrection not asingle imprisoned Communist was shot.
• “Murmurs, discontent, insurrections, rebellion, would inevitably ensue,” with a likely result that “our present glorious Union itself would be dissevered or dissolved.” A Country of Vast Designs
• In the Balkans these insurrections resulted in a gradual liberation of most of the oppressed peoples.
• There was no exemption for those engaged in an armed insurrection and an armed struggle against a government. Times, Sunday Times
• With the establishment of strong dynasties, civil wars and baronial insurrections were quelled or kept under control.
• Celebes has lately been successful, and the _campong_, where every hut was closed for a year in consequence of the local Rajah forcing his people to join in his insurrection, has at last been re-opened, though under a guard of Dutch and Malay troops. Through the Malay Archipelago
• In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
• Nothing frightened slave-dependent societies more than the prospect of widespread slave insurrections.
• The Bible calls him an insurrectionist and a murderer, so he was an imprisoned terrorist awaiting execution.