Example sentences for: rebellions

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

  • But with self-confidence came complacency, and the French bourgeoisie was cast again onto shifting ground with the massive student rebellions of 1968.

  • In rock 'n' roll's first decade, songwriters like Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly established its song forms and subject matter: the lives, loves, and modest rebellions of newly enfranchised teens.

  • His twist is to use Darwinism to show how the familial struggle among siblings for parental attention accounts for everything in society from social rebellions to scientific revolutions.

  • The more orthodox Muslims were concerned that Islam was being abandoned, and rebellions sprang up in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab.

  • The fort has somber associations for the city: Its cannons bombarded the population to put down rebellions in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it was the site of political executions, including that of Lluís Companys, president of the Generalitat of Catalonia during the Civil War, who was shot by a firing squad in 1940.


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