How to Use declare (one's) independence in a Sentence

declare (one's) independence

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• By then the war had ended, and the country went on to declare independence from Serbia in 2008.
  — Alan Light, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• Can The Club declare independence from mostly mundane baseball for the first time in eight years?
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 5 July 2021
• The queen, who ruled for seven decades, has seen droves of former colonies declare independence during her reign.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• Local high school teacher Sarah Cooper comes up with a plan to have the town declare independence and become its own country.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
• This led to a war after the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s and Nagorno-Karabakh attempted to declare independence.
  — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2020
• In 1811, Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021
• It’s been particularly strong among the province’s sovereigntists — those who want Quebec to declare independence from Canada.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
• The crisis escalated, and pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk held a referendum to declare independence from Ukraine.
  — Sammy Westfall, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2022
• Taiwan needs not declare independence, as long as it isn’t incorporated into China.
  — Robert D. Kaplan, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• For one, Tarrio, the group’s longtime leader, was outed as a onetime federal informant, prompting many chapters to declare independence from the organization.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2021
• Within Taiwan, a majority of people favor maintaining the status quo, with some wanting to openly declare independence and a small minority wanting to someday unify with China.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• However, it was widely criticized by historians as riddled with inaccuracies, including the assertion that the Revolutionary War was an effort by colonists to preserve slavery rather than declare independence from the British monarchy.
  — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024