Example sentences for: rebelled

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

  • When McDonald took over, many of the men rebelled against the program's strictures, especially the random drug testing.

  • Ethnic Chechens--descendants of an isolated mountain people--were strong trade partners with Russia in the 18 th and 19 th centuries, but rebelled violently against annexation in the late 1700s and again in the 1840s and 1850s.

  • Carver never admitted to being Lish's creation, but he chafed and finally rebelled, forbidding Lish to edit heavily or rewrite anymore.

  • Kemal handled the problem with his usual vigour and eloquence in a speech to the Assembly, by linking the power of the caliphate with that of the Assembly: “… It was by force that the sons of Osman seized the sovereignty and Sultanate of the Turkish nation… Now the Turkish nation has rebelled and has put a stop to these usurpers, and has effectively taken sovereignty and the Sultanate into its own hands.

  • Having rebelled in their youth against Judaism's commandments, having come to revile its restrictions--having, in some sense, wished it dead--they were forced to watch the Nazis fulfill their fantasy by actually murdering the thing whose destruction they inwardly willed.


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