Example sentences for: rebellion

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

  • An indignant Barbara Chase-Riboud filed a $10 million copyright-infringement suit against Steven Spielberg and the makers of Amistad in October, claiming that the movie contained characters and scenes unique to her historical novel about the slave rebellion.

  • He set up an intricate plan for military rebellion across the Reich and took it upon himself to bring a bomb into Hitler's "Wolf's Lair" compound in East Prussia.

  • The recent Kurdish unrest is rooted in 60 years of rebellion, betrayal, and defeat.

  • But the Independent noted "a whiff of rebellion" in the spontaneous singing by the entire parliament of Robert Burns' anti-royal ballad "A man's a man for a' that," which favorably compares the ordinary man with "Yon birkie ca'd 'a lord' /Wha struts an stares, an a' that."

  • An article by a baby boomer contends that modern teen-agers have nothing left to rebel against, save rebellion.


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