Example sentences for: separatists

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

  • Russia attacked Islamic separatists in Dagestan and bombed neighboring Chechnya.

  • Discord within the Spanish government or conflict with foreign powers frequently served as an excuse for Catalan separatists to rise up, though their rebellions were usually summarily quashed.

  • Similarly, the Independent of London contrasted the armed forces' success in battling the Kurdish separatists of Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdish Workers' Party with its failure to help quake victims: "It turned out that while they could assault the PKK with US attack helicopters, they could not even set up soup kitchens for Turkish civilians 24 hours after the earthquake."

  • The president reiterated that China would use force if necessary against the Taiwan "separatists" and against "foreign forces which try to impede the reunification of China."

  • Jones stated, “These letters were said to have come from Quaker congregations, and were written in their style; from Presbyterian Meetings, from Congregationalists, from Anabaptists, Moravians, Seceders, Independents and Separatists.”


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