How to Use secede in a Sentence

secede

verb

• South Carolina seceded from the Union in 1860.
• Counties may secede from one state and join an adjoining state as things break apart.
  — Phoebe Petrovic, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
• Half of Trump voters think that maybe the red and blue states ought to secede from each other.
  — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2021
• Missouri was a slave state that never seceded from the Union.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Or Anchorage could secede from state laws in regards to crime.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2018
• Many in the south dislike the government, as well as the Houthis, and hope to secede.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• One explanation for the increase is that there are now more countries from which to secede.
  — Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
• Despite what some of them might claim, few of these groups genuinely aim to overthrow the government or secede.
  — Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• But unless either team secedes from the Big Ten, this matchup will take place at least every three years from now.
  — Scott Dochterman, ajc, 3 Nov. 2017
• As more states seceded and joined the Confederacy, more stars were added to the flag.
  — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
• That would mainly involve the 33 counties who voted to secede.
  — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 23 Oct. 2025
• In one moment, a news reporter announces over the radio that 19 states have seceded.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• The novel tells of a tiny group that tries to get Vermont to secede from the Union in 2017.
  — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2017
• The president can call out the army against seceding states and their renegade congresspeople.
  — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
• The only thing holding the government together is a desire to secede from Spain at any cost.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 2 Oct. 2017
• Right here in Maryland, though the state never seceded from the United States.
  — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• Moreover, state law, as seen in the Tennessee case, can be crucial in the relative ease with which districts can secede.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
• Seven Southern states had already seceded with the fate of Kentucky, a slave state, still unknown.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
• Gulf Shores is the first city to secede from the county school system and will open its doors as a separate city school system in August.
  — al.com, 22 June 2019
• Six years later, La Cañada voted to secede from the Pasadena school district.
  — Tim Deroche, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2025
• The visit comes less than a week after the country marked the 25th anniversary of its vote to secede from Indonesia.
  — Christopher Lamb, Helen Regan and Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
• The short answer is no – there's no legal way for California to secede from the United States.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
• Escondido water officials have no plans to secede.
  — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
• Aside from the fact that Texas cannot legally secede from the United States, such a bill would also receive plenty of pushback.
  — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2021
• The civil war was preceded by the country's bloody conflict to secede from Sudan in 2011.
  — TheWeek, 22 Feb. 2020
• The last state to successfully secede was West Virginia in 1863.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
• In October, the idea of California seceding from the Union was broached.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Jan. 2018
• The movement isn't to secede from the state, but to split the state by separating all counties from Cook County and Chicago.
  — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
• Flying the confederate flag bothers me more—as the South attempted to secede from the same Union that the flag represents.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Soon after Lincoln's election, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.
  — Anthony Mason, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2024