Example sentences for: rebellious

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

  • Government troops clamped down on rebellious Indians, who continued to resist until a peace treaty was finally negotiated in 1935.

  • Members of a rebellious 16th-century French faction were called Guisards because of their extravagant get-ups; the word has become a common, if rarely used, noun for a masquerader or mummer.

  • It follows two families, black and white, who turn out to be the Zeligs of the 60's: Their rebellious offspring turn up at every key event from the Freedom Rides to Woodstock.

  • And later-born offspring are rebellious (the case with Stephen).

  • At the very moment The Empty Fortress was clinching his reputation as a nonauthoritarian liberator of autistic children--in other words, during the Vietnam era--a ranting Bettelheim seized the podium as an authoritarian castigator of rebellious youth.


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