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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• John Owen Lowe plays Ellis' son Jackson, who has a knack for science but in an act of rebellion has moved away to teach flute.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
• And what, in the eyes of Devo, had replaced — had, indeed, consumed — rebellion?
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
• But some of it was out of ambush or rebellion or sabotage.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• What led the girls to ISIS is presented as an extreme act of youthful rebellion.
  — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
• As the full force of the Realm bears down on the burgeoning rebellion, unbreakable bonds are forged, heroes emerge, and legends are made.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2024
• In most of these rebellions, men took the lead, but some of the protests against enclosures during the reign of King James I of England were made up only of women.
  — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
• Some women activists took up the black chador and veiling as emblems of rebellion.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• For many workers, however, the pandemic bred a rebellion against the work-first mind-set.
  — Christina Caron, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Can tears be understood through a lens of rebellion and power?
  — Rachel Dlugatch, Longreads, 18 July 2023
• Kim envisions this rebellion as a bird flapping its wings in flight.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• Red signals danger, rebellion, and lust, three things for which Carmen is known.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• Zeb has not only survived the rebellion, but found a home fighting on behalf of the New Republic.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023
• Leading a rebellion against the Galactic Empire can take a toll.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 5 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024