How to Use insurgency in a Sentence

insurgency

noun

• By 2009, the insurgency was over and the island was once again open for tourism.
  — Emily Schmall Atul Loke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• Both saw the emergence of the insurgency and then its growth.
  — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2023
• So what does all this mean for the insurgency in Ukraine?
  — Jason Fields, The Week, 8 Mar. 2022
• Most agree that the window to stamp out the insurgency is narrow.
  — Ghazi Balkiz, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
• The group known as PKK has waged a 38-year insurgency against Turkey that has led to tens of thousands of deaths.
  — Fox News, 31 May 2022
• Over the next few years, the insurgency spread through the poor and isolated province.
  — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
• The Philippines is one of the few places in the world that has an active communist insurgency.
  — Jason Gutierrez, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021
• In the morning on the second day of Prigozhin’s insurgency, Putin addressed the nation.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The group has led an armed insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.
  — Suzan Fraser, Star Tribune, 21 June 2021
• Although these operations dealt a blow to the group, the insurgency learned to adapt.
  — Sarah Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
• The party has fought a decadeslong insurgency against the Turkish state.
  — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
• A decade ago, Taliban fighters waged a hit-and-run insurgency against U.S. and Afghan troops on the town’s unpaved streets and winding paths.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• Clubhouse launched in the spring of 2020, the thick of the pandemic, with a white-nationalist insurgency in the offing.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
• Tamacti Jun tries once more to quell the Witchfinders’ insurgency.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 5 Sep. 2022
• Then there were Syria and Iran, which readily supplied men and weapons for the years-long insurgency in Iraq.
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 25 Apr. 2021
• Upstairs in the vestibule, Hollander thought the scene was no longer just a rowdy protest but had taken on an air of insurgency.
  — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 10 Mar. 2022
• Thousands have been killed in the more than 10-year-old insurgency and more than a million people displaced.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2020
• But three very different men have tried to lead House Republicans in the dozen years since the tea party insurgency pushed the party to the right in 2010.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• And as the insurgency mushroomed, people began to blame the foreign forces.
  — Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 7 June 2024
• In response, the coalition shifted to the hearts-and-minds strategy of counter-insurgency.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• The economy there was badly damaged by the urban insurgency; the crackdown against the HDP has not helped.
  — The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021
• To commit to a larger counter insurgency would bog us down in a costly, open-ended war.
  — David Axelrod, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• The Taliban top brass is safe, while young Taliban fighters wage their insurgency in Afghanistan.
  — Sher Jan Ahmadzai, The Conversation, 22 July 2021
• Thousands have been killed in the more than 10-year-old insurgency, more than a million people displaced.
  — Sam Olukoya, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• The Mozambique government hires the Wagner Group to counter the al-Shabab insurgency.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 26 June 2023
• Karen rebels were in the middle of a long insurgency against the country’s central government.
  — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
• The film follows three women in the aftermath of Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency, which took place in 2021.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 23 Nov. 2024
• The attack took place on Sunday afternoon in Yobe, one of three states at the frontline of an insurgency that has lasted 15 years.
  — Reuters, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
• The government is struggling to address housing and debt crises, and to quell a yearslong insurgency backed by the Islamic State.
  — Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
• Its battalions have been smashed; all that is left is a ragtag insurgency capable only of hit-and-run tactics.
  — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025