How to Use insurgency in a Sentence

insurgency

noun

• Having been humiliated by the Taliban’s triumph, there is no appetite in the West to fund an insurgency against their rule.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• And in 1992, his forces arrested the leader of Shining Path, helping halt that insurgency.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
• By 2009, the insurgency was over and the island was once again open for tourism.
  — Emily Schmall Atul Loke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• Both saw the emergence of the insurgency and then its growth.
  — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2023
• So what does all this mean for the insurgency in Ukraine?
  — Jason Fields, The Week, 8 Mar. 2022
• Most agree that the window to stamp out the insurgency is narrow.
  — Ghazi Balkiz, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
• The group known as PKK has waged a 38-year insurgency against Turkey that has led to tens of thousands of deaths.
  — Fox News, 31 May 2022
• Over the next few years, the insurgency spread through the poor and isolated province.
  — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
• In the morning on the second day of Prigozhin’s insurgency, Putin addressed the nation.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Although these operations dealt a blow to the group, the insurgency learned to adapt.
  — Sarah Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
• The party has fought a decadeslong insurgency against the Turkish state.
  — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
• Clubhouse launched in the spring of 2020, the thick of the pandemic, with a white-nationalist insurgency in the offing.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
• Tamacti Jun tries once more to quell the Witchfinders’ insurgency.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 5 Sep. 2022
• Upstairs in the vestibule, Hollander thought the scene was no longer just a rowdy protest but had taken on an air of insurgency.
  — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
• But three very different men have tried to lead House Republicans in the dozen years since the tea party insurgency pushed the party to the right in 2010.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• And as the insurgency mushroomed, people began to blame the foreign forces.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• In response, the coalition shifted to the hearts-and-minds strategy of counter-insurgency.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• The Mozambique government hires the Wagner Group to counter the al-Shabab insurgency.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 26 June 2023
• The attack took place on Sunday afternoon in Yobe, one of three states at the frontline of an insurgency that has lasted 15 years.
  — Reuters, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
• Parts of Ukraine were deeply anti-Russian, raising the specter of an insurgency even if Putin toppled the government in Kyiv.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• But many experts believe that a long insurgency could develop, and raise the cost for Putin of the invasion.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
• Regardless of the public’s opinion, the facts are crystal-clear—AI and high-tech have come far, and there’s no way of stopping the global insurgency.
  — Hilary Tetenabaum, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• With dirty cops in his pocket, Moktar rejects both the idealism of Abdel and the insurgency of Karim.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
• The leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency in Peru who was captured in 1992.
  — Bernard McGhee, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
• And a horrific video harking back to the grimmest days of the insurgency that showed the beheading of an Iraqi police officer.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• The buffer zone, built as part of Egypt's battle against an Islamic State group insurgency, was meant to prevent weapons smuggling to and from Gaza.
  — Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
• They were crushed by Soviet power, in a brutal counter-insurgency, and today Ukraine’s far right polls at one to two per cent.
  — Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
• Many people took up arms against the regime, or joined existing insurgencies.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
• With the fall of Kabul, he had been transformed from the covert spokesman of a long-running insurgency to the face of a national administration.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Staying on as an occupying power, Ayalon noted, would enmesh the military in another endless insurgency.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024