Example sentences for: rebellious

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

  • 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.

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

  • Thompson is a useful icon to have around: For right-wingers, he's a visible casualty of '60s sybaritic excess; for rebellious kids, he's a token--or is that toke?

  • At a 54-member meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Yeltsin decried the "sermonizing" by the West over his attack on the rebellious province of Chechnya.

  • Standardized tests are dispatched wittily in a scene in 'Tis in which an "Academic Chairman" reels off a list of what McCourt, as a neophyte teacher, must do with a class full of angry, ignorant, rebellious teen-agers:


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