Example sentences for: rebel

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

  • 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.

  • The NYT focuses on one Chechen village, a former refuge for a Chechen rebel commander, which has recently suffered severe attacks even though there is currently no indication of rebel presence in the village.

  • There are rock-world observers who never considered Courtney a rebel, who dismissed her as a marginally talented opportunist who married well and whose stock rose precipitously after her husband committed suicide.

  • While it is true that films such as Blackboard Jungle , The Wild One , East of Eden , and Rebel Without a Cause tapped into the baby boom audience, the teen demographic was identified at Warner Bros. in the 1930s with the popular films starring the Dead End Kids.

  • If to my trip counselors I was a miscegenating rebel, and if to Ofra's uncle, whose censure I still remembered, I was a godforsaken secular Jew, and if to Devin's mates I was that locker-room joke, the lubricious JAP, and if in the eyes of the Muslim men observing us while they played sheshhesh in the market cafes I was a representative of dissolute America, the country of women who are beyond whoredom, then the weight of these clashing systems of control and expectation around female sexuality was just too much.


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