Example sentences for: insurgency

How can you use “insurgency” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Army as a non-citizen while in his mid-thirties--and puts him in Afghanistan during the CIA-managed anti-Soviet insurgency there.

  • Sex traffickers have shifted their trade from Sindhupalchowk and Nuwakot in central Nepal to Rukum and Rolpa (the hotbeds of the insurgency) in the mid-west, taking undue advantage of the socio-economic conditions borne by conflict and violence.

  • With luck and wisdom, Ankara could now end a bloody insurgency that has cost some 31,000 lives, slowed economic development and given Turkey one of the world's worst records in the human rights field.

  • The military support never came, and as his troops fled the city after quashing the insurgency, Hitler ordered them to raze Warsaw building-by-building and thereby annihilate important monuments of Polish culture.

  • The far western regions of the country, which are less economically developed and which are the hotbed of the current insurgency, are more prone to migration.


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