How to Use insurrection in a Sentence

insurrection

noun

• All four men marched on D.C. streets in the weeks before the insurrection.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Lee is lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Some went as far as to refer to the lawmakers’ protests as an insurrection.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• Lee is lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The morning after the Capitol insurrection, Kim went to the Rotunda to bag garbage.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• Charlotte Stoudt, our showrunner, saw this article in the paper about a young man who saw his father at the insurrection and turned him in to the FBI, and the cost of that.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• The justices in Colorado found Trump did engage in insurrection, as did the secretary of state in Maine.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Observers see little chance of the kind of insurrections that jarred Washington and Brasília.
  — Annabelle Chapman, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• Should a state-court judge be defining an insurrection?
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• He's also pushed back on Trump's election fraud claims and decried the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• But Trump, as mentioned, was not charged with insurrection.
  — Larry Elder, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
• Perhaps the closest brush with insurrection came in 1842, not amid the terror of battle but during a peacetime training cruise on the brig-of-war Somers.
  — Gerard Helferich, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• The role of Facebook and other platforms in the January 6 insurrection that would come just a few weeks later left me a little less sure.
  — Jeff Horwitz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• The police force is struggling to stave off an insurrection by heavily armed gangs.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• Fox News is facing another legal challenge in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
• Except there was no insurrection after A Gore and Hillary Clinton lost.
  — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• Trump left office with around the same average approval rating as Biden's current mark, following a dip in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024
• More than 1,000 people have been arrested for taking part in the insurrection.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 6 July 2023
• Moms for Liberty has also made common cause with extremist groups such as the Proud Boys, which played a leading role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Twelve years later, thousands stormed the US Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• But the court — made up of a rotation of three Supreme Court justices, two other federal judges, and two lawyers — found that Bolsonaro’s comments to the diplomats were part of a script that led to the Jan. 8 insurrection.
  — Marina Dias, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
• Parler was removed from Apple and Google’s app stores after the insurrection.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
• Just six Senate Republicans joined him in voting to convict Trump a second time, over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• Those who opposed it said that Trump did not engage in insurrection, was not responsible for Jan. 6 and at the very least was not convicted of anything.
  — Galen Druke, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2024
• If the Justices do avoid the insurrection question in ruling for Trump and he is elected, the issue will inevitably reëmerge after November.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2024
• So did Mike Pence, despite the fact that an angry mob of Trump supporters wanted to hang him during the January 6 insurrection.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2023
• Khater pleaded guilty to using chemical spray on Sicknick, the officer who died the day after the insurrection.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• In his own floor speech, Romney said, What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the president of the United States.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
• According to the committee, Epshteyn attended meetings at the Trump campaign's war room, set up in the Willard Hotel, in the days leading up to the violent insurrection.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Trump remains under investigation over the Jan. 6 insurrection and efforts to overturn his loss to Biden in the state of Georgia.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024