Example sentences for: insurgency

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

  • Turkey, the papers say, holds Ocalan responsible for the approximately 30,000 deaths occurring during the Kurdish insurgency.

  • 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.

  • One senior al Qaeda operative claims to recall Bin Ladin arguing that attacks against the United States needed to be carried out immediately to support insurgency in the Israeli-occupied territories and protest the presence of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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