How to Use mutinous in a Sentence

mutinous

adjective
  • Mutiny or any mutinous act committed on board a vessel at sea.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 7 June 2019
  • The shoot went more than a hundred days over schedule, and the crew nearly turned mutinous.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Seems like a good fit for a capable first officer now marred by her mutinous past.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
  • In the face of such mutinous fan behaviour, will the Molineux board stick or twist?
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • Prigozhin leading a mutinous march towards Moscow just weeks ago, now dead.
    — ABC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Some were mutinous sailors, and others may have been captured by pirates themselves.
    — National Geographic, 2 July 2020
  • Well while dealing with mutinous students hell-bent on staging Macbeth.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Liverpool’s crowd were in mutinous mood during a 1-1 draw with Chelsea.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • Relationships between the mutinous clubs and those left behind will be repaired, at least for now.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2021
  • World leaders condemned the mutinous uprisings as attacks on villages and army posts gained steam.
    — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Security forces tried to disperse crowds that came out to support the mutinous soldiers.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The mutinous soldiers in Niger flew to Mali this week, and met with the military junta there.
    — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • After Delano finally sees the truth his men overwhelm the mutinous slaves.
    — Andrew Delbanco, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • At half-time, Argentina’s match ball was clearly working wonders, and the home crowd were in mutinous shock.
    — SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • How can a mere scent encapsulate the mutinous desires that even the shyest, most genteel among us are harboring these days?
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Sandwiched in between was a draw with Chelsea, which felt like a defeat with the mood inside Anfield so mutinous.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • The English got close in Hudson Bay, before its namesake was left to die in a dinghy by his mutinous crew.
    — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Ardern has spared herself the indignities of outstaying her welcome or being forced to go by mutinous colleagues.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The government also had to bow to the pay demands of mutinous soldiers and striking government workers.
    — Bloomberg.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Niger President Mohamed Bazoum says he is being held hostage by the mutinous soldiers.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • His obsession soon jeopardizes the mutinous crew when the gigantic and deadly creature attacks the ship.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • His obsession soon jeopardizes the mutinous crew when the gigantic and deadly creature attacks the ship.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Approached by mutinous courtiers who begged her to act decisively against her son, Zumurrud took matters into her own hands.
    — Katherine Pangonis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Nam, meanwhile, gently pokes fun at K-pop conventions and calms a mutinous cast that threatens to rebel against his nonsensical rules.
    — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • One tense predicament replaces another, from poison gas attacks to mutinous passengers to orders to kill the co-pilot or shoot down the plane.
    — Malcom Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • As the various protest banners displayed at full time suggested, survival will do nothing to quell the anger or to soothe a mutinous atmosphere.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising prompted mutinous soldiers to overthrow the president of a decade.
    — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising prompted mutinous soldiers to overthrow the president of a decade.
    — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
  • Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising prompted mutinous soldiers to overthrow the president of a decade.
    — Edith M. Lederer, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019
  • About 100 military members have planned the takeover since August, according to one of the mutinous soldiers.
    — NBC News, 24 Jan. 2022

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