How to Use mutineer in a Sentence

mutineer

noun
  • Time for all of the mutineers to lay down their cudgels.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Then the African slaves burned down the mutineers' housing and went to live with Native Americans in the area.
    al, 23 Aug. 2019
  • That door is smashed in, actually, when a band of mutineers take an axe to the door of the prince’s cabin.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • Today Pitcairn remains one of the last outposts of the British Empire that the mutineers had sought to escape.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2019
  • Sergeant Kone said the mutineers were also active in Man, near the western border with Liberia, and Bondoukou in the east.
    Reuters, New York Times, 13 May 2017
  • In the story's climactic flashback to the event, the mutineers are forced to quickly massacre the crew when their stash of guns is discovered by the ship's doctor.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
  • Six months later, another boat lands on the coast of Chile, with just three castaways—who told a very different tale: that the first group of men were mutineers.
    Town & Country, 21 July 2023
  • Some were frustrated that the deal to defuse the conflict allows the mutineers to escape punishment.
    Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • On the coup night tanks closed traffic in Istanbul and crowds of people helped overpower the mutineers, in clashes that left many dead.
    Yeliz Candemir, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • Reserved for cowards, mutineers, and the like, decimation in Antony’s world meant removal of a tenth.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 July 2019
  • In the story's climactic flashback to the event, the father explains the mutineers were forced to quickly massacre the crew when their stash of guns was discovered by the ship's doctor.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 12 July 2017
  • Among Putin’s henchmen, Zolotov’s background stands in sharp contrast to that of Prigozhin, the brash mutineer who ordered his men to advance on Moscow over the weekend.
    Simon Shuster, Time, 27 June 2023
  • Russian mercenary chief and mutineer Prigozhin killed in jet crash, state media say.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Soon enough, the high-foreheaded mutineer is lashed to a fence, snarling madly like all the other post-death humans in this plague smitten afterworld.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • While the fate of the defiant mutineer and his fighters remain uncertain, there are signs that his hold over onetime backers may have been weakened by the saga.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 June 2023
  • Richard Hughes’ deft, surprising (based on a true story!) High Wind in Jamaica, with its pint-sized pirate ship mutineers is just about the best thing ever.
    Alison Fields, Longreads, 25 July 2019
  • Their new strategy gives the mutineers, who lack the votes to oust Mr. McCarthy, significant power over the speaker and his agenda.
    Carl Hulse, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • Prospective mutineers tend not to follow orders so well.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • His squad now contained both mutineers and their replacements.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Hundreds of people gathered for a rally against the revolt close to the military headquarters in Abidjan, which was still being held by the mutineers.
    Reuters, New York Times, 13 May 2017
  • But his army chief poured cold water on such hopes, saying in a statement that the army was backing the mutineers to avoid bloodshed and prevent infighting among the security forces.
    Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • Prigozhin and his mutineers were then given haven in Belarus, where their arrival has prompted Ukraine and Poland to tighten security.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The mutineers who have taken over the strangest house in Game of Thrones history also turn Craster's daughters into their property.
    Paul Schrodt, GQ, 11 July 2017
  • But as mixed martial arts have bulled into the mainstream, Diaz remains a reliable mutineer.
    John Branch, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • A Reuters witness saw three pickup trucks carrying elite Republican Guard troops, who fired warning shots that pushed the mutineers back inside the military compound.
    Washington Post, 12 May 2017
  • The mutineers urged external partners not to interfere.
    Time, 27 July 2023
  • Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a mutant, a mutineer and a mutule.
    Lore Sjöberg, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2007
  • As Singh does for coups in his book, Dwyer describes in hers a mutineers’ playbook, detailing the tactics mutineers commonly use to communicate their grievances.
    Kim Yi Dionne, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
  • But the muted reaction might also have been a sign that many officers and soldiers were sympathetic to the mutineers, military analysts said.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • For 43 years after the extradition of Robbins, not one person, citizen or alien, would be surrendered by the federal government to another country, including other mutineers from the Hermione.
    A. Roger Ekirch, Smithsonian, 24 Mar. 2017

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