INSURGENT in a Sentence
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47 example sentences for INSURGENT, such as:
1. The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied.
2. General Washington led the insurgent forces in the Revolutionary War.
3. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not see him.
4. All approaches to the capital are now under the control of the insurgents.
5. This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the insurgents.
2. General Washington led the insurgent forces in the Revolutionary War.
3. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not see him.
4. All approaches to the capital are now under the control of the insurgents.
5. This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the insurgents.
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Meanings and Examples of INSURGENT
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insurgent
a. rising in revolt against established authority; rebelling against leadership of political party
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom he was saving to don his uniform.
2 A platoon of the National Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
3 When he had no longer any weapon, he reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm or other into his fist.
4 A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
5 He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the subject of that insurgent who had been taken to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; but he never even thought of that.
6 Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, legally, death puts an end to pursuit.
7 She tried to free herself from the speculation and disillusionment which had been twitching at her; sought to dismiss all the opinionation of an insurgent era.
8 At a single point the insurgents yielded; they abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la Corderie.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
9 The insurgents, on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
Context Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
10 The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any light in the upper stories.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES
11 This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the insurgents.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C...
12 The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not see him.
13 The insurgents were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there was perceptible that quasi-silence which marks the last stage of expectation.
14 One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget even to defend himself, seized upon the insurgents, and they approached the body with respectful awe.
15 The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied.
Example Sentence:
1 Because the insurgent forces had occupied the capital and had gained control of the railway lines, several of the war correspondents covering the uprising predicted a rebel victory.
2 General Washington led the insurgent forces in the Revolutionary War.
3 The insurgents holed up here remain tenacious, unleashing suicide bombers and planting lethal explosives that can blow anything off the road.
4 All approaches to the capital are now under the control of the insurgents.
5 President-elect Muhammadu Buhari hasn't made it clear how his strategy will improve on that of Goodluck Jonathan, who he unseated partly on the pledge to wipe out the insurgency.
6 A coup followed by an Islamist insurgency uprooted many Malians last year, before French-led forces helped restore order in January.