How to Use secession in a Sentence

secession

noun

• In 2011, one of many wars ended with the secession of South Sudan.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• While Cruz's comments were light-hearted, the prospect of a Texas secession is not new.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2021
• Attempts at political secession spread as far as Odessa to the south and Kharkiv to the west.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• The threat of Scottish secession has, at least for the moment, receded.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
• On top of all this, red-state secession would be self-defeating.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
• Tyler Brown, for example, thinks secession could be a good idea.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• The three judges, however, wrote that this argument did not rule out that secession could be one of the meanings.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 27 July 2021
• Historians can trace a Texas secession movement all the way back to the post-Civil War era.
  — Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2022
• That said, the threat of secession can be a useful tool to ensure La Jolla’s needs are not overlooked in the push for greater equity.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• More than an effort to raise revenue, then, the political point of a wealth tax is that such secession will not stand.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 28 Oct. 2021
• Among smaller motifs were the sun symbol of the Biafra secession, a flower blossom, the black panther, the Afro comb.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2021
• Pogue insists that much about the secession effort always has been a little hazy.
  — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2022
• These fears will hardly be assuaged by the two republics’ secession.
  — Daniel Treisman, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
• He was found guilty of inciting secession by a judge who was handpicked by Carrie Lam, the city’s leader.
  — Dan Strumpf, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2021
• On the wall hung a lithograph of Alabama’s secession ordinance — which John W. Inzer had been the youngest and the last delegate to sign.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Nov. 2022
• Not all people in District 2 are supportive of a secession and there are strong feelings on both sides, Kennedy said at the meeting.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2022
• This is, after all, the same platform that calls for a secession referendum.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 9 Aug. 2022
• The next stage is for the sultan to gain recognition of his micronation’s secession from the United States, although that might be a little far-fetched even for Williams.
  — Richard Collett, CNN, 8 June 2023
• West Seattle, separated by the rest of Seattle by the Duwamish River had even talked secession.
  — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• In stark contrast to the Moores, Benning was a leader in the South’s secession movement and strongly defended slavery.
  — Howard Manly, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• Most states didn’t have flags at the time they were admitted into the union, and the ones that did were usually Southern states that had adopted a flag during secession.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• Loudoun passed a county resolution endorsing secession close to the start of the Civil War.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• Polls then and now show that the wealthy northeast region is roughly equally divided over the secession question.
  — Joseph Wilson, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
• In Buckhead, yard signs supporting and opposing the secession plan dot lawns.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
• Although voters are required to approve the secession, the water authority sued the agencies last month in an attempt to stop the move.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• The citizenry today is characterized by a double secession — a retreat of both the wealthy and the poor from the democratic sphere.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
• In the room in which I was commissioned there’s a plaque commemorating Alabama’s secession from the union, which was decided on in that very room.
  — al, 14 Dec. 2021
• In 2013, a group dubbed the Western Maryland Initiative tried to garner support for the idea of secession through a Facebook page but made little tangible progress.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
• By then, of course, Xi will have left the stage—but his ripping up of the CCP’s secession protocol, and the lack of an obvious successor, promises to cause considerable angst.
  — Time, 1 July 2021
• When these and other efforts failed, secession and Civil War followed.
  — Scott Dalton, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024