Sample sentences for INSURRECTION

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Definition

organized opposition to authority

The civil rights activists were charged with inciting insurrection—a capital offense in Georgia.

The insurrection spread throughout the country.

insurrection = organized opposition to authority

An insurrection took place, the object of which seems to have been to interrupt the course of law and get rid of debts and taxes.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Grandfather's Chair
Turns insurrection to religion.
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry IV, Part 2
Never had there been insurrection so sudden, so short, and so successful.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The White Company
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,
Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence

insurrections = organized opposition to authority

She kept a-raging right along, running her insurrection all by herself, and everybody else mighty meek and quiet; and at last Uncle Silas, looking kind of foolish, fishes up that spoon out of his pocket.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

insurrection = organized opposition to authority

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
It was the look of moral, of social, disapproval, as if he scented some kind of insurrection, of defiance of his accepted standards.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
Every hope is a plan for insurrection.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
They fear we might mount an insurrection while they are dancing minuets and gorging on stuffed goose.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains
If you have ever cherished any dreams of violent insurrection, you must abandon them.
George Orwell -- 1984
To my left are the Allegiant, Marcus, and the insurrection plan.
Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
And when Galbatorix began his insurrection in earnest, with Morzan by his side, he was already stronger than most every other Rider.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
Fries, it was his judgment, had led a riot, not an insurrection, and was therefore not guilty of treason.
David McCullough -- John Adams
Theirs was not a football team to be beaten but an insurrection to be put down.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
"I would go," I said, answering Thalia, looking at Mama, taking satisfaction in playing the insurrectionist that Mama thought I was.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
The insurrection added to his confusion; and after the madonna statue in the Domain had been smashed he became very nervous.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
This was insurrection in the ranks—the first attempt to limit the previously unlimited power of "Czar" Cannon!
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
Neither in Moscow nor anywhere in Russia did anything resembling an insurrection ever occur when the enemy entered a town.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

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