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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Parts of Ukraine were deeply anti-Russian, raising the specter of an insurgency even if Putin toppled the government in Kyiv.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• But many experts believe that a long insurgency could develop, and raise the cost for Putin of the invasion.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
• Regardless of the public’s opinion, the facts are crystal-clear—AI and high-tech have come far, and there’s no way of stopping the global insurgency.
  — Hilary Tetenabaum, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
• With dirty cops in his pocket, Moktar rejects both the idealism of Abdel and the insurgency of Karim.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2022
• The leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency in Peru who was captured in 1992.
  — Bernard McGhee, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
• And a horrific video harking back to the grimmest days of the insurgency that showed the beheading of an Iraqi police officer.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• The Philippine military has been battling a stubborn insurgency in the southern part of the country for years.
  — New York Times, 4 July 2021
• Turkey has in recent decades faced an insurgency by ethnic Kurds fighting for their own independent state.
  — Aziz Akyavas, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2024
• After all, the 31-year-old doctor had become a household name in Pakistan for her advocacy defending the rights of the country’s Baloch minority -- a fraught issue in a country where separatists have fought an insurgency for decades.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024