How to Use mutineer in a Sentence

mutineer

noun

• Time for all of the mutineers to lay down their cudgels.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• Then the African slaves burned down the mutineers' housing and went to live with Native Americans in the area.
  — al, 23 Aug. 2019
• That door is smashed in, actually, when a band of mutineers take an axe to the door of the prince’s cabin.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• Today Pitcairn remains one of the last outposts of the British Empire that the mutineers had sought to escape.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2019
• Sergeant Kone said the mutineers were also active in Man, near the western border with Liberia, and Bondoukou in the east.
  — Reuters, New York Times, 13 May 2017
• In the story's climactic flashback to the event, the mutineers are forced to quickly massacre the crew when their stash of guns is discovered by the ship's doctor.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
• Six months later, another boat lands on the coast of Chile, with just three castaways—who told a very different tale: that the first group of men were mutineers.
  — Town & Country, 21 July 2023
• Some were frustrated that the deal to defuse the conflict allows the mutineers to escape punishment.
  — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
• On the coup night tanks closed traffic in Istanbul and crowds of people helped overpower the mutineers, in clashes that left many dead.
  — Yeliz Candemir, WSJ, 14 July 2017
• Reserved for cowards, mutineers, and the like, decimation in Antony’s world meant removal of a tenth.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 July 2019
• In the story's climactic flashback to the event, the father explains the mutineers were forced to quickly massacre the crew when their stash of guns was discovered by the ship's doctor.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 12 July 2017
• Among Putin’s henchmen, Zolotov’s background stands in sharp contrast to that of Prigozhin, the brash mutineer who ordered his men to advance on Moscow over the weekend.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 27 June 2023
• Russian mercenary chief and mutineer Prigozhin killed in jet crash, state media say.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Soon enough, the high-foreheaded mutineer is lashed to a fence, snarling madly like all the other post-death humans in this plague smitten afterworld.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• While the fate of the defiant mutineer and his fighters remain uncertain, there are signs that his hold over onetime backers may have been weakened by the saga.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 June 2023
• Richard Hughes’ deft, surprising (based on a true story!) High Wind in Jamaica, with its pint-sized pirate ship mutineers is just about the best thing ever.
  — Alison Fields, Longreads, 25 July 2019
• Their new strategy gives the mutineers, who lack the votes to oust Mr. McCarthy, significant power over the speaker and his agenda.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• Prospective mutineers tend not to follow orders so well.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• His squad now contained both mutineers and their replacements.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Hundreds of people gathered for a rally against the revolt close to the military headquarters in Abidjan, which was still being held by the mutineers.
  — Reuters, New York Times, 13 May 2017
• But his army chief poured cold water on such hopes, saying in a statement that the army was backing the mutineers to avoid bloodshed and prevent infighting among the security forces.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• Prigozhin and his mutineers were then given haven in Belarus, where their arrival has prompted Ukraine and Poland to tighten security.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• The mutineers who have taken over the strangest house in Game of Thrones history also turn Craster's daughters into their property.
  — Paul Schrodt, GQ, 11 July 2017
• But as mixed martial arts have bulled into the mainstream, Diaz remains a reliable mutineer.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• A Reuters witness saw three pickup trucks carrying elite Republican Guard troops, who fired warning shots that pushed the mutineers back inside the military compound.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2017
• The mutineers urged external partners not to interfere.
  — Time, 27 July 2023
• Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a mutant, a mutineer and a mutule.
  — Lore Sjöberg, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2007
• As Singh does for coups in his book, Dwyer describes in hers a mutineers’ playbook, detailing the tactics mutineers commonly use to communicate their grievances.
  — Kim Yi Dionne, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
• But the muted reaction might also have been a sign that many officers and soldiers were sympathetic to the mutineers, military analysts said.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• For 43 years after the extradition of Robbins, not one person, citizen or alien, would be surrendered by the federal government to another country, including other mutineers from the Hermione.
  — A. Roger Ekirch, Smithsonian, 24 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024