Example sentences for: insurgency

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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


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