How to Use rebellion in a Sentence

rebellion

noun

• She's the head of a rebellion against the leaders of the party.
• The king's army suppressed the rebellion.
• The unfair tax laws sparked a rebellion.
• The peasants rose in rebellion.
• Recent election losses have led to open rebellion among some party members, who are calling for a complete change of leadership.
• Most of the time, Wu is in open rebellion against school norms.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
• The pandemic brought with it a wave of rebellion against the 9-to-5 that's hard to shake.
  — Alan Price, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• As for Finnick’s death at the hands of lizard mutts during the rebellion, Claflin still has some thoughts.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• The rebellion that affirms the value of human life wins the day.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
• Wear it with just about anything to feel a slight thrill of rebellion.
  — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2023
• As the result of a rebellion within the empire, Nero fled Rome to die.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 29 July 2023
• But the memo did little to quell the growing rebellion in the newsroom.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 20 June 2024
• He hasn't been seen publicly since the rebellion was quelled June 24.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
• That set in motion a rebellion resulting in the loss of scores of lives.
  — R.j.m. Blackett, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• The same plots of rebellion happen over and over again so there’s no sense of real change.
  — Vulture, 11 Sep. 2023
• Instead he was drawn to the angst and rebellion in metal.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2022
• After all, as the trailer says, this is a show about a rebellion.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• This looks like righteousness and rebellion — a blast, a boom, a bang.
  — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 27 July 2022
• The rebellion puts Johnson's job at risk if Democrats don't step in to save him if the group of hardliners forces a vote.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2024
• The fact that Ahsoka has her own series at all has a sniff of rebellion about it.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Aug. 2023
• And the third reason is actually the rebellion that the program is known for.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2023
• Some users staged a rebellion, shutting down parts of Reddit for days.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2024
• Contenders to take over from Grayscale have emerged from the ranks of the rebellion, including McClurg’s Valkyrie.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
• One of the mournful elements of the show is that her daughter is the person who has most clearly paid the price of that rebellion.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
• This week’s rebellion is a response to part of Reddit’s plan to succeed as a business.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 15 June 2023
• It wasn’t created for open rebellion against the dance.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
• And even before his rebellion, Prigozhin admitted that Ukraine was building one of the strongest armies in the world.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
• This song is a very public rebellion to the notion that women shouldn't speak out on their heartbreak.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Jan. 2023
• Soon the ’50s spirit of discipline collided with the next generation’s ethos of rebellion.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2024
• One of the words used in the spray painting Monday, intifada, is an Arabic word that refers to rebellion or a shaking off that is often used by Palestinians to describe their resistance against Israel.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024