How to Use insurrection in a Sentence

insurrection

noun

• All four men marched on D.C. streets in the weeks before the insurrection.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• On the eve of the insurrection, the pair rented a car and drove to Washington.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• The insurrection was a direct assault on the democratic process and the rule of law.
  — Matthew Paul McCaffery, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2024
• Lee is lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Something of the raging fire that helped ignite the Jan. 6 insurrection is just gone.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
• Some went as far as to refer to the lawmakers’ protests as an insurrection.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• Lee is lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• The morning after the Capitol insurrection, Kim went to the Rotunda to bag garbage.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• Charlotte Stoudt, our showrunner, saw this article in the paper about a young man who saw his father at the insurrection and turned him in to the FBI, and the cost of that.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• The justices in Colorado found Trump did engage in insurrection, as did the secretary of state in Maine.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Observers see little chance of the kind of insurrections that jarred Washington and Brasília.
  — Annabelle Chapman, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• Should a state-court judge be defining an insurrection?
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• He's also pushed back on Trump's election fraud claims and decried the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Read Next Deputy’s selfies at Jan. 6 insurrection got her fired, suit says.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2024
• Greene has demanded access to the jail to visit some two dozen detainees from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
  — Ashraf Khalil, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• But Trump, as mentioned, was not charged with insurrection.
  — Larry Elder, Orange County Register, 8 Mar. 2024
• What do people like him not understand about the Jan. 6 insurrection and Trump’s support of it?
  — Jaime Welton, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• History tells us, from Bloody Sunday to Watergate to the Jan. 6 insurrection, the coverup is often worse than the crime.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2023
• Days after the insurrection, the House voted to impeach the President, but the Senate then failed to convict him.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
• Perhaps the closest brush with insurrection came in 1842, not amid the terror of battle but during a peacetime training cruise on the brig-of-war Somers.
  — Gerard Helferich, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• In the trailer, Callaghan narrates a timeline and gives insights into the events his team filmed leading up to the Capitol insurrection.
  — Ej Panaligan, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
• The role of Facebook and other platforms in the January 6 insurrection that would come just a few weeks later left me a little less sure.
  — Jeff Horwitz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• Medeiros said he, like many here, felt betrayed by Valadao’s vote to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• The police force is struggling to stave off an insurrection by heavily armed gangs.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• Fox News is facing another legal challenge in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
• Except there was no insurrection after A Gore and Hillary Clinton lost.
  — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• This is a lie, as Trump was impeached a second time for inciting an insurrection.
  — Kizzy Cox, Essence, 2 Oct. 2024
• Calling the insurrection a coup attempt, President Luis Arce asked the people to take to the streets to defend its government.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
• Trump left office with around the same average approval rating as Biden's current mark, following a dip in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024
• Reilly calls Harris 'easily the least damaging choice' His personal concerns about Trump predated the 2021 attack that some have termed an insurrection.
  — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024