How to Use separatist in a Sentence

separatist

noun

• That’s why the Catalonian separatists want to leave Spain but stay in the EU.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 3 Jan. 2020
• The party has vowed to be much tougher on both Catalan separatists and migrants.
  — SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2019
• The village was cut in two: one part in Ukraine and the other controlled by pro-Russian separatist forces.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
• With the army and separatists in stalemate on the battlefield, peace can come only through talks.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• So this is my way of doing a lesbian separatist utopia.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2021
• Since 2014, pro-Russian separatist forces have fought in the region to gain control.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
• Many separatists came to the region and left the church to continue practicing polygamy decades ago.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez and Kristin Lam, azcentral, 6 Nov. 2019
• Serret is the first high-profile separatist to return since then.
  — Joseph Wilson, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
• The flight was shot out of the sky over territory held by pro-Russian separatists, killing all 298 people on board.
  — Michelle Krupa, CNN, 8 Mar. 2020
• Yet the amnesty for Catalan separatists who sought to break away from Madrid six years ago is widely unpopular in Spain.
  — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• China calls Tsai - re-elected by a landslide in 2020 on a promise to stand up to Beijing - a separatist and refuses to speak to her.
  — Fox News, 10 Oct. 2022
• There were fears of violence on Election Day, from Islamic militants in the north to separatists in the south.
  — Chinedu Asadu, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• After running away from the Black separatist cult where she was raised, the teenage Vern attempts to raise her newborn twins in the woods, free from the constraints and dangers of society.
  — Sadie Gennis, Vulture, 8 July 2021
• Suspicions focused on separatists who had vowed to disrupt the events.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
• The boyhood friend called Kirik in 2014, before Russian troops and a proxy force of local separatists seized control of eastern Ukraine and captured Crimea.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
• Protesters in Zahedan denied the claim and residents of the city said no overt separatist slogans were seen during the protests.
  — Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• In this case, the state’s approach seems to have worked: a year later, a poll showed that only about five per cent of Russians blamed their government or the separatists for the disaster.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• The left’s path to power hinged on a Catalan separatist party that had pledged, crucially, to abstain in Tuesday’s vote.
  — Chico Harlan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• Eastern Ukraine has been ravaged by years of war between government forces and separatists backed by Russia, sparked in the aftermath of the 2014 mass protests in Kyiv.
  — NBC News, 29 Dec. 2019
• For the last five years, war has raged between the Ukrainian government and Russian-backed separatists in the country’s eastern region.
  — Michael Biesecker, Twin Cities, 23 Dec. 2019
• The three Catalan separatist parties won a combined 23 seats on Sunday.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2019
• The calls sparked further clashes between the separatists and the Indian government, which claimed many lives.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
• Forza Nuova has openly supported the Russian separatist movement in Ukraine in the past, as well as the Syrian regime.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 15 July 2019
• And in 2014, the singer was photographed holding a Novorussian flag—which represents a Russian separatist region in Ukraine.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2022
• The money is intended for use by Ukraine in its struggle with pro-Russian separatists backed by Moscow.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2019
• The largely Roman Catholic nation's southern region has been the scene of decades of Muslim separatist unrest.
  — Jim Gomez, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• And in Canada, that trend was filtered through a specific context—the need to appease Quebec separatists.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2019
• The rest went to a newly independent state of Moldova—which was then riven in a conflict by pro-Russian separatists.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
• The Baluch Liberation Army, an ethnic separatist group that's operated in the region since 2000, said in a statement the strikes targeted and killed its people.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
• The pro-Kremlin leader has also subdued the Chechen separatist movement that fought for independence from Russia for almost two decades.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024