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"Insurrection" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The demonstration was hardly an insurrection -- on the contrary, people were rather peaceful.
Tom was arrested for inciting an insurrection.
Having seen television footage of the violent insurrection, Tom was heartsick to learn that some members of Congress had known of the attempted coup d’état before it occurred.
The situation escalated into a nationwide insurrection.
The military put down the insurrection.
The January 6, 2020 insurrection in the United States was armed and violent.
They intend to lead an insurrection.
A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. (1866, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 3)
After this, by the great wiſedome and politic of the Nobles and Captaynes, a communication was had, and an agreement made vppon the Kings pardon, obtayned for all the Captaynes and chiefe doers in this inſurrection, and promiſe made that they ſhoulde bee gentlye heard, to declare ſuch things as they found themſelues agreeued with, […]
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And therefore if God afterward gave, or permitted this inſurrection of Epiſcopacy, it is to be fear'd he did it in his wrath, as he gave the Iſraelites a King.
Our own experience has corroborated the leſſons taught by the examples of other nations; […] that ſeditions and inſurrections are unhappily maladies as inſeparable from the body politic, as tumours and eruptions from the natural body; […]
He returned to Spain, and was now on his way to join and take command of an insurrection, whose success was to be the touchstone of their countrymen.
Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell Lowell wrote: “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.” Had he lived to the year 2021, he might have changed his mind.
“They were insuring against the insurrection of cargo – I think that completely sums it up. How can cargo insurrect?” asks Hall.
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