How to Use rebel in a Sentence

rebel

1 of 3 adjective
  • As with the rebel golf tour, much of sports is about the money.
    New York Times, 28 July 2022
  • At the same time, there’s a rebel streak in the sport that refuses to die.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Tehran also backs the rebel Houthis in a bloody war with the Saudis in Yemen.
    Arkansas Online, 14 July 2022
  • The Houthis are a rebel movement that controls much of Yemen’s north.
    Ali Al-Mujahed, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Deep in the jungle, rebel groups have taken the fight to the military.
    Sandi Sidhu, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The rebel reporter who was obsessed with booze, drugs and guns?
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Soon, the arrival of a rebel warlord Jasper tilts the odds in Jabi’s favor.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Tehran also sponsored the rebel Houthis in a bloody war with the Saudis in Yemen.
    CBS News, 13 July 2022
  • Pushback from the squares only raised his rebel appeal among the young.
    Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The Libyan dictator was ousted and killed by rebel forces in 2011.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Richardson flew in an old cargo plane to meet the rebel leader.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The rebel alliance gathers like Mujahideen in the mountains.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Violent rebel groups and drug smugglers are known to hide out in the region.
    Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In 1991, the Derg was overthrown by a coalition of rebel militias; Abiy, who was then in the seventh grade, left school for a time to join the cause.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Carey has the skills to guide you out of a fire fight, negotiate through a rebel checkpoint and deal with a gunshot wound.
    Rob Williams, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Some rebel good guys are seeking the Crown of Sabbac, to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • From the metal heads of Givenchy to the rebel preps of Tommy Hilfiger, Fall’s runways proved that over-the-knee boots work for a variety of styles.
    Natalie Alcala, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Back in 2013, there had been nearly a thousand rebel groups, an alphabet soup of acronyms.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Ordinary people, Black and white, sacrificed to preserve the Union against the designs of the rebel South.
    Jon Meacham, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Throughout the sci-fi franchise, the rebel leader often wore her hair in two buns on either side of her head.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023
  • Kathleen, the rebel leader in Kansas City, was willing to risk the entire city to avenge her brother.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But the government blamed the Coalition of Patriots for Change, an alliance of rebel groups.
    Elian Peltier, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • An excerpt from the article reads; To be effective against this rebel group, the marines needed to adapt.
    Eric Tegler, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • As a result, the book swarms with white-armored stormtroopers and ragtag rebel legions.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
  • As much as anything else, though, the Houthis are a rebel group, a military movement forged in the country's long civil war.
    Elliott Goat, The Week Uk, theweek, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Their boldness is one of many strengths that has earned them their rebel reputation.
    Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Cassian was first introduced in Rogue One, which saw the character lead a rebel force in stealing the Death Star plans.
    Justine Browning, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • That film follows Ellis, a 25-year-old Black gay man who joins the Marines to both rebel and redefine himself.
    Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
  • Saudi Arabia has led a coalition that has backed Yemen's government in its fight against a rebel group called the Houthis, who are backed by Iran.
    Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 12 July 2022
  • That campaign will take long hours as this tactical role-playing game has players building a rebel army from scratch.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
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rebel

2 of 3 noun
  • He is a typical teenage rebel.
  • He was a rebel against the school administration.
  • The government captured six armed rebels.
  • The rebels still hold the vessel near the port city of Hodeida.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The city fell to the regime in 2014, when rebels left it after a two-year siege.
    Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Iran is a key supporter of both Hamas in Gaza and the Houthi rebels.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • There's danger along the way, as she'll be forced to battle her way to the lost rebel.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
  • At the height of the Haitian Revolution, rebels moored ships along Mona’s coast.
    Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Choose your rebel and join the fight in this four-player co-op action game.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
  • If true, the strikes would mark one of the largest attacks by the rebels on Saudi soil in their more than five-year war in Yemen.
    Leo Sands, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The footage drew gasps and cheers, with Ray Stevenson as a Sith cutting rebels with a red sword and using the Force to choke one.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Mirage is a bit of a rebel himself, and the callback to the classic buddy-cop movie just felt right.
    Stef Schrader, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • While the group’s leadership was also outside of Afghanistan, the rebels in the country were well equipped and earned around $100 a month.
    Najim Rahim, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Nowadays, being a rebel means being on the opposite side of someone else, on the left or the right.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2023
  • But Iran appears to have less control over the Houthis, as the Yemeni rebel group continued to target ships.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels, and government forces have been killed in the conflict.
    Aijaz Hussain, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Crane was in town to sail with a ship trying to break a blockade that the U.S. government had placed on arms shipments to Cuban rebels.
    Richard Byrne, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The rebels have claimed other attacks targeting Eilat, which have caused no damage in the city.
    Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
  • If the rebels consider the Germans their allies, Willie wonders, then what does that make him?
    Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The United States and Britain have responded with strikes against Houthi targets, but the rebels have kept up their attacks.
    Edith M. Lederer, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Attacks on commercial ships in the region have increased, which the Houthi rebels say is in support of the people of Gaza.
    Hala Gorani, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Is a new Speaker really going to want to confront the rebels right away by going to bat for Ukraine?
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In the documentary series, the infamous death camp will be portrayed through the eyes of the rebels and survivors.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Today, 28-year-old Kimberley Lawton is perhaps best thought of as the rebel off it.
    Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Both government- and rebel-held areas in Syria have reported hundreds deaths and injuries in the quake.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Ethnic Albanian rebels launched a fight to rid the country of Serbian rule in 1998.
    Dusan Stojanovic, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2023
  • Saddam Hussein had just finished blasting away at Shi’a rebels in the holy city of Najaf.
    Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • According to his son, Crump was a beatnik with a reputation as a rebel among the Disney fold.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Despite more than a month and a half of U.S.-led airstrikes, Houthi rebels have remained capable of launching significant attacks.
    Jon Gambrell and Tara Copp, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The accident comes as global shipping has largely adjusted to disruptions from Houthi rebel attacks on vessels in the Red Sea.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Mar. 2024
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rebel

3 of 3 verb
  • The protesters are rebelling against the new tax law.
  • When the government imposed more taxes, the people rebelled.
  • Children often rebel against their parents.
  • On top of all that, the West Coast states and cities rebelled.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • It is also feared that teenagers would rebel against such drudgery.
    Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
  • In the long, long run, the human spirit will indeed rebel against the lowering of the skies.
    Frank S. Meyer, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The school’s students and faculty rebelled, and the takeover failed.
    Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
  • Who is left for Democrats to rebel against, beyond the president?
    Jim Geraghty, National Review, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Her daughter, Rose (Aubrey Dollar) is a good girl who wants to rebel.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Apple TV+ — Mark takes the team on a field trip, but Helly continues to rebel.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The mixed messages are part of why some business owners rebel.
    Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Children will rebel against their parents and may even grow their hair long.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
  • One option would be to rebel and try to prove its assumptions false.
    Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
  • But moderates in the House and Senate fear the country will rebel against such largesse and want cuts in the price and the ambition of the package.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 27 Sep. 2021
  • So far, and probably for decades to come, the way the office workers will rebel is outside the workplace.
    Fanny Howe, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Pushing the people in your domestic sphere to bend to your will could provoke them to rebel.
    Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Practical new arrangements are in the spotlight near the full Moon of the 28th but the 19th holds an aspect that prompts you to rebel against the status quo.
    Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The family had begun to struggle and the young MacGowan had started to rebel.
    Caine O'Rear, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The theory alleges that the colonists later rebelled against the empire.
    Jeremy Hillpot, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Part of me likely wanted to rebel against what my older sister liked, too.
    Charlotte Cho, Marie Claire, 29 June 2021
  • In the West, some are rebelling by turning against progressivism.
    Itxu Díaz, National Review, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Once onboard they were stripped naked; the men were sent below, while the women and children—less likely to rebel—were kept on deck.
    James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Of course, such projects are big-budget one-offs, designed to rebel against featureless cityscapes.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Merchants, many of whom generate 80% to 90% of their sales on Amazon, are less likely to rebel.
    Spencer Soper, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In 2019, though, the Whitney staff rebelled over the business dealings of trustee Warren Kanders.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Will Jonah, Marty and Wendy’s son, continue to rebel against them?
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 21 Jan. 2022
  • But the cracks soon started to show, as Williams rebelled against the polished image that had been created to represent the band.
    TIME, 8 Nov. 2023
  • What, then, would happen when the Jewish People rebel against God for other beliefs?
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Certainly not gonna help convince the supe community not to rebel against humankind when that comes out.
    Alex Raiman, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The farmers are also rebelling against attempts by retailers and the government to bring down their prices to curb food inflation.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024

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