[ US /ɹɪˈbɛɫjən/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪbˈɛli‍ən/ ]
NOUN
  1. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
  2. refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
    each generation must have its own rebellion
    his body was in rebellion against fatigue
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How To Use rebellion In A Sentence

  • Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
  • Human rebellion didn't change his desire. Christianity Today
  • They are in rebellion against the conservative hierarchy of the Church.
  • All of modern art since the middle of the previous century had been based on rebellion against academicism and Ingres was the painter most associated with academicism.
  • This has continued in times of war, rebellion, economic panic and depression, loyalty scares, riots, draft-card burnings, and similar crises. The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball
  • Throughout the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth, scarcely a year passed without violent protest or armed rebellion.
  • The rebellion is expected to further damage the country's image.
  • One week after this story was written, the top 20 pop albums in the United States included records by fresh-faced adolescents the Beatles, teen sensation Bob Seger, twentysomething heartthrob Frank Sinatra, a barely-postpubescent but preternaturally-talented Bob Marley, recent high school graduate Rod Stewart, former boy band member Johnny Cash, newly-discovered youth sensation Barry White, and a band whose name is synonymous with "teenage rebellion": Pink Floyd. Sirilyan Diary Entry
  • Twitter in an attempt to exert discipline at the end of a year that has been blighted by rebellion within the side and allegations of match-fixing. Times, Sunday Times
  • From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War
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