How to Use insurgent in a Sentence

insurgent

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• Beijing’s struggle to broker a fresh cease-fire between the Three Brotherhood Alliance and the junta led an irate Naypyidaw to launch punitive aerial strikes against civilians and insurgents alike.
  — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
• What the king would not tolerate, Mr. Nxumalo said, were young activists acting like insurgents.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024

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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
• In recent years, Tehran sought to play both sides of the Afghan civil war, supporting the Kabul government while also maintaining ties to the insurgent Taliban.
  — Ian Talley, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024