How to Use insurgent in a Sentence

insurgent

1 of 2 noun
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  • Insurgents are trying to gain control of the country's transportation system.
  • The insurgents from the hard right of the GOP are usually the aggressors.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The insurgents shut down the local school, then shot a teacher.
    — John Hudson, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • He was tricked by a group of Maoist insurgents, who gave his troop free food and then tried to steal their guns.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Niger is a former French colony and has served as the main ally for Paris in the fight against insurgents in the region.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
  • In Borno the military will work harder to deal with the insurgents.
    — Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The difference is that Jake is a full-fledged insurgent now.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The cause helped sell the war to Americans who cringed at the sight of a B-52 carpet bombing insurgent positions.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Star Tribune, 18 Apr. 2021
  • When the Marine stepped inside, one insurgent would shoot him while the other—who was hiding by the door—would drag him deep into the house.
    — Elliott Ackerman, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Public fights between young insurgents and the old guard often play out in the media.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
  • The insurgents blocked the northern exit by 8:30, just two hours after the rockets sprayed overhead.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2023
  • There are no known insurgent groups operating in that province, home to the Bakhtiari, a branch of Iran's Lur ethnic group.
    — Jon Gambrell The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Running a home business seemed to isolate the former insurgents in my study.
    — Maria Paulina Arango, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Bazoum had been a key ally of the United States and other Western countries in confronting the insurgents.
    — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • That sense — that Sanders is the one true populist insurgent who speaks up for the party base — is the Vermont senator’s greatest strength.
    — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The 429 package, which allows an insurgent to be killed in an air strike, must meet the legal requirements.
    — Annie Jacobsen, Wired, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Those figures do not include soldiers and insurgents killed in the conflict; their numbers are believed to be in the tens of thousands.
    — Lou Kesten, Bassem Mroue, Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • At one point, insurgents kidnapped Méndez Ruiz — then a college student — and held him for two months.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • All are missing and one is presumed dead after the helicopter came down in an area that is a stronghold of the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The insurgents are preventing the desert city from being supplied with basic goods.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Rahm’s odds were slim, needing to overcome not just Scheffler but the insurgent Nick Taylor, who sat three strokes ahead at 17 under.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The stakes are high for the documentarian, who decided to stay in the country after the insurgents seized the city in August 2021.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • This is not a combat film; the central action, a battle between the Taliban and a group of insurgents, is vaguely described, not shown.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
  • An allegedly insurgent demand is, in a way, a description of the status quo.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The Taliban released a video in which an unnamed insurgent announced the takeover of the city's main radio station, which has been renamed the Voice of Sharia, or Islamic law.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2021
  • The city was choked, its residents fleeing to escape the constant barrage of insurgent missiles and the long lines at bakeries running out of bread.
    — Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Will the fanboys go for all this elaborate world-building, inevitably leading to a deadly faceoff on the insurgents’ way home to Veldt?
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Just a few months ago, most of the field was making overtures to activists and the insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party on a range of issues, including policing.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
  • Her unconventional approach has the feel of an insurgent as the top tier largely skipped New Hampshire last month.
    — Michael Casey, The Denver Post, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Hip-hop, an insurgent art form with roots in postindustrial cities in the aftermath of the civil-rights movement, was thriving.
    — Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2023
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insurgent

2 of 2 adjective
  • Its seizure by the Taliban marks the first time the city was captured by the insurgent group since their rise to power in the 1990s.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • In the first two days after the insurgent takeover of the capital on Aug. 15, though, his sales numbers jumped to 40 a day.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The post hadn't stopped a single insurgent fighter in months.
    — George Stanley, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Even at moments when insurgent clouds seemed to seize control of the sky, rain did not seem part of our future.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • Those insurgent movements aspired to change the vision of the party.
    — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • By early summer, the insurgent group controlled more than half of the districts in Afghanistan.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • French forces thwarted an insurgent takeover of the nation in 2013, but the militants regrouped and spread across West Africa.
    — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Once again, the mighty US military had been beaten by insurgent forces in a country far from home.
    — Christian Stadler, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The United States has a long history of covertly providing arms to insurgent groups around the world.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • By this time, however, the lines were invisible to the insurgent mob.
    — Adele M. Stan, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
  • As Election Day neared, Bannon was again at the center of the action on the insurgent right, and plainly relishing his role.
    — Adele M. Stan, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
  • By the afternoon, most of the city was under insurgent control, and most government forces had fled.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • By 2019, the Ghani government had lost effective control over the area to the Taliban, Al Qaeda and insurgent groups.
    — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The weapon was used in Afghanistan against ‘high value targets’ – a term that usually refers to insurgent leadership and praised.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Collins has emerged as a something like a de facto chieftain within the insurgent AMC investor group.
    — Abram Brown, Forbes, 13 June 2021
  • Bergdahl, traveled across front lines from Qatar to a meeting with insurgent commanders from all over Afghanistan to explain its terms.
    — Jessica Donati, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The insurgent movement has yet to respond to Biden’s surprise announcement that the pullout would only start on that date.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • After a long siege, insurgent forces seized Kunduz, Afghanistan’s sixth biggest city, about 200 miles north of Kabul.
    — Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2021
  • While the insurgent virus never strikes everywhere at once, the holidays do.
    — Chris Wilson, Time, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Cantor aligned himself with the insurgent members of the Party, frequently at the expense of his boss, John Boehner.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Afghan forces have managed to retake several districts, but nothing on the scale of their insurgent foes.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2021
  • The insurgent campaigns offer a test of the Republican electorate’s appetite for candidates not as far to the right as Mr. Gosar.
    — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • And yet here are women, writing books, forcing their perspectives into the light, and proving what potent, insurgent art can be made in the process.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 May 2021
  • The attack is the latest in a brutal war unfolding in the country’s north involving insurgent groups believed to be linked to the Islamic State.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2021
  • The guards have long maintained they were targeted by insurgent gunfire at the traffic circle where the shooting occurred.
    — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Whether that means escaping the forces that would control him or seizing his creative liberty in more insurgent ways is the question that lingers.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
  • This insurgent approach has caused establishment figures from both parties to refer to Justice Democrats and its ilk as the Tea Party of the left.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
  • In response, the political arm of the insurgent group that runs Idlib has closed some markets, forced restaurants to serve outdoor meals only, and delayed the opening of schools by a week.
    — Bassem Mroue, ajc, 22 Sep. 2021
  • How did a small cadre of insurgent Republicans bring the House to a standstill? Polarization.
    — Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The City Hall veteran said the leaks could be a galvanizing force for insurgent candidates.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2022

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