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
• This was a rebellion that preened, that caroused, that had no shame.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Feb. 2022
• 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
• In 1982, the Assads put down a rebellion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Part Two will show the price of pushing back against the status quo, as well as the hopes that can spring from rebellion.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
• After all, as the trailer says, this is a show about a rebellion.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• It’s a spark plug of a song that comes with a sense of rebellion and understanding.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• So a lot of what Adam and I talked about was that rebellion is like currency between the two of them.
  — ELLE, 8 Apr. 2022
• This looks like righteousness and rebellion — a blast, a boom, a bang.
  — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 27 July 2022
• For eight years, Russia has backed this armed and bloody rebellion.
  — Iryna Kyporenko, Time, 25 Feb. 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
• There was always a slight thirst for rebellion among us.
  — Colleen McKeegan, ELLE, 8 June 2022
• And the third reason is actually the rebellion that the program is known for.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2023
• The first is Hotspur’s — poor, reckless lionheart, unlucky enough to be born on the wrong side of the rebellion.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
• Won’t their outies find out about the rebellion their innies launched?
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2025