How to Use separatist in a Sentence

separatist

noun

• The 46-year-old Sanchez has pledged to open talks with Catalan separatists.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
• There’s no longer talk of a peace process with Kurdish separatists.
  — Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2018
• 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
• Apti went on to fight in one of the pro-separatist Chechen battalions in Eastern Ukraine.
  — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, 3 May 2018
• This week that was lifted as the separatists formed a new government.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Battles began in 2014 between Ukraine’s forces and pro-Moscow separatists in the east of the country.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 19 June 2019
• 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
• India’s army declared a truce in its fight against separatists in the Kashmir Valley.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• 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
• Arab separatists in the region claimed the attack and Iranian officials have blamed them for the assault.
  — Nasser Karimi, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
• 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 abductors are called the Amba Boys, a reference to the state of Ambazonia, a new country that Cameroon separatists want to create.
  — Stavros Agorakis, Vox, 6 Nov. 2018
• 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
• And last year when protests by separatists turned violent, the president was in Switzerland.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2018
• 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
• His father, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is credited with crushing the Tamil armed separatist movement in 2009.
  — Krishan Francis, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
• Campaigning for the creation of Khalistan has long been outlawed in India, where painful memories of a deadly insurgency by some Sikh separatists continue to haunt many.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024