Example sentences for: rebel

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

  • When Delta Air Lines promises to be "ready when you are," is that an instance of untrammeled individualism, catering to the whims of the impulsive jet-set rebel?

  • Saudi Arabia and the United States supplied billions of dollars worth of secret assistance to rebel groups in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet occupation.

  • Those within a population who sympathize with an enemy's aims, and may render assistance when the time is ripe, constitute a fifth column , a term that goes back to the Spanish Civil War and the remark of a rebel general, Emilio Mola, to the effect that his four columns of troops would be supplemented by a civilian quinta columna , a fifth column of sympathizers, in their attack on Loyalist-held Madrid in 1936.

  • As McNealy puts it, in typically blunt terms, "There's two camps, those in Redmond, who live on the Death Star, and the rest of us, the rebel forces."

  • According to Frank J. Sulloway, author of Born To Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives , if your loved ones chose a), you are a typical firstborn--an achieving, status conscious, defensive, incipient fascist terrorist.


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