How to Use rebellion in a Sentence

rebellion

noun
  • She's the head of a rebellion against the leaders of the party.
  • The king's army suppressed the rebellion.
  • The unfair tax laws sparked a rebellion.
  • The peasants rose in rebellion.
  • Recent election losses have led to open rebellion among some party members, who are calling for a complete change of leadership.
  • The bagels still feel like a rebellion.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 4 Feb. 2026
  • This is not a rebellion against medicine.
    — Scott Hamilton, STAT, 4 Mar. 2026
  • This was a rebellion that preened, that caroused, that had no shame.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Not as an act of rebellion, but as a design choice.
    — John Winsor, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The rebellion has been crushed.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Most of the time, Wu is in open rebellion against school norms.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
  • Wear it with just about anything to feel a slight thrill of rebellion.
    — Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Dancing in this way can’t help but feel like a rebellion.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But this laziness is her small act of rebellion.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Aren’t rebellions built on hope?
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • In mid-April, anger turned to rebellion.
    — David Blumenthal, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Food is part of Liu’s rebellion.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • And rebellions, by nature, come in all forms.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Trace the beat of rebellion in North Beach.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • But the rebellion has also spurred a race to the bottom.
    — Laura K. Field, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
  • After all, as the trailer says, this is a show about a rebellion.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • In a culture that tends prize busyness above all else, rest can feel like rebellion.
    — Allison Palmer august 19, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • For eight years, Russia has backed this armed and bloody rebellion.
    — Iryna Kyporenko, Time, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The same plots of rebellion happen over and over again so there’s no sense of real change.
    — Vulture, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Her choice challenges the rules of her world and sparks a rebellion that paves the way for a new way of life.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • To be clear, not all teens are taking part in some sort of mass rebellion by staring us down.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 17 July 2025
  • This looks like righteousness and rebellion — a blast, a boom, a bang.
    — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 27 July 2022
  • What is a rebellion in relation to the whole?
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • Won’t their outies find out about the rebellion their innies launched?
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Their out-of-state rebellion cannot go unchecked, and the business of Texas must go on.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025

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