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43 example sentences for INSURRECTION, such as:
1. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction.
2. Under the Caesars, there was no insurrection, but there was Juvenal.
3. In the beginning, the insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent.
4. The approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of the government.
5. The insurrection had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized nearly all the posts of the garrison.
2. Under the Caesars, there was no insurrection, but there was Juvenal.
3. In the beginning, the insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent.
4. The approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of the government.
5. The insurrection had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized nearly all the posts of the garrison.
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Meanings and Examples of INSURRECTION
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insurrection
n. rebellion; uprising; rising against civil or political authority
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1 The nation, attacked one morning with weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession of so much force that it did not go into a rage.
2 The approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of the government.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
3 There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the wrong, the other is in the right.
4 There is no insurrection except in a forward direction.
5 is insurrection; Hebert against Danton is revolt.
6 Hence it results that if insurrection in given cases may be, as Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most fatal of crimes.
7 There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw.
8 Under the Caesars, there was no insurrection, but there was Juvenal.
9 But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which is sometimes right and sometimes wrong.
10 In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; insurrection is always a moral phenomenon.
11 In the beginning, the insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent.
12 Universal suffrage has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms.
13 Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there of an improvisation.
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
14 The Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye.
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
15 The insurrection had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized nearly all the posts of the garrison.
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