How to Use insurgency in a Sentence

insurgency

noun
  • Both saw the emergence of the insurgency and then its growth.
    — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Most agree that the window to stamp out the insurgency is narrow.
    — Ghazi Balkiz, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
  • What is the Baloch insurgency about?
    — Amira Jadoon, The Conversation, 13 May 2026
  • Over the next few years, the insurgency spread through the poor and isolated province.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
  • The insurgency in the country’s northeast has lasted more than a decade.
    — ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • By 2009, the insurgency was over and the island was once again open for tourism.
    — Emily Schmall Atul Loke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • What was the methodology of the insurgency at the time?
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The oil- and mineral-rich region has long been the scene of a low-level insurgency.
    — ABC News, 24 May 2026
  • Many of them are not in school due to the insurgency and Ating hopes to change the numbers in her own little way.
    — Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 25 July 2019
  • Bastar’s hills and woods have seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the insurgency.
    — Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • Although these operations dealt a blow to the group, the insurgency learned to adapt.
    — Sarah Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Has the insurgency been affected by the Iran war?
    — Amira Jadoon, The Conversation, 13 May 2026
  • Balochistan borders Iran and Afghanistan and has long been the scene of insurgency.
    — arkansasonline.com, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Pakistan backed an insurgency there, leading to the first war with India.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 7 May 2025
  • Tehran says some of them have ties to foreign powers and are involved in cross-border smuggling and insurgency.
    — Dubai Newsroom, Reuters, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The Philippines is one of the few places in the world that has an active communist insurgency.
    — Jason Gutierrez, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Some Kurdish groups have fought a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state.
    — Younes Mohammad, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
  • And as the insurgency mushroomed, people began to blame the foreign forces.
    — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • The party has fought a decadeslong insurgency against the Turkish state.
    — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Karen rebels were in the middle of a long insurgency against the country’s central government.
    — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
  • Tamacti Jun tries once more to quell the Witchfinders’ insurgency.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Thousands have been killed in the more than 10-year-old insurgency and more than a million people displaced.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Yet in the early years of the insurgency there were talks to try and reach a settlement, until both sides accused each other of bad faith.
    — Obi Anyadike, semafor.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Thousands have been killed in the more than 10-year-old insurgency, more than a million people displaced.
    — Sam Olukoya, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
  • In response, the coalition shifted to the hearts-and-minds strategy of counter-insurgency.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Even the Iranian Kurds do not seem to be showing any great readiness to launch an insurgency.
    — Dennis Ross, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Far from being a success, the fall of Baghdad marked the beginning of an insurgency that stretched on for years.
    — Tom Bowman, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Upstairs in the vestibule, Hollander thought the scene was no longer just a rowdy protest but had taken on an air of insurgency.
    — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The limits of our power were clearly demonstrated, as insurgencies took hold and our major aims were unachieved.
    — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 1 Mar. 2026
  • This is referred to as a cell style of organization, which is popular with insurgency groups.
    — Alexander Lowie, The Conversation, 29 Dec. 2025

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