How to Use insurrection in a Sentence

insurrection

noun
  • The film presents boosting as an act of insurrection from the street up.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This is not Lozano’s first brush with insurrection.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • There has to be an insurrection in order for him to be allowed to invoke it.
    — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Some went as far as to refer to the lawmakers’ protests as an insurrection.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Kim was also found guilty of insurrection and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
    — Stella Kim, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The insurrection was a direct assault on the democratic process and the rule of law.
    — Matthew Paul McCaffery, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Yoon is still standing trial on charges of insurrection, a crime that is punishable by death or life in prison.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 3 June 2025
  • On the eve of the insurrection, the pair rented a car and drove to Washington.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The word insurrection does not appear.
    — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • An insurrection, of sorts, is brewing.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 June 2026
  • How many presidents have used the insurrection act?
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • There's an uprising here, some kind of insurrection.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
  • There is no insurrection in Portland.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • There is no insurrection in Portland.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • First, if a state requests assistance to put down an insurrection against the state government.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
  • But there is nothing like an insurrection in the city of San Francisco.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The 28-minute video was released for the first time to mark the one-year anniversary of the insurrection attempt.
    — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Yoon is on trial on charges of insurrection, which could result in life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The insurrection was not an event that unfolded at a distance but one that exploded just down the block, around the corner, across the street.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
  • He was arrested and faces charges of insurrection over his martial law bid, which carries a maximum penalty of death.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Observers see little chance of the kind of insurrections that jarred Washington and Brasília.
    — Annabelle Chapman, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But the regime, besieged by insurrections across the country, abandoned Manbij.
    — Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • To pretend otherwise ― and that's what any denial of the insurrection is, although lying works, too ― is ridiculous.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Yoon was found guilty of abuse of authority and masterminding the insurrection.
    — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Sedition is language used to incite insurrection against a government.
    — Laura Gersony, AZCentral.com, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Yoon was later arrested and charged with insurrection, an offense that carries the maximum penalty of death.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Yoon has denied deploying the drones or attempting an insurrection by declaring martial law.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • There was also a plan to encourage an insurrection in early 2023.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • There was also a plan to encourage an insurrection in early 2023.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026

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