How to Use mutinous in a Sentence

mutinous

adjective

• Chin up, mouth down: the basic demeanor of the mutinous.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019
• The mutinous soldiers in Niger flew to Mali this week, and met with the military junta there.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• The English got close in Hudson Bay, before its namesake was left to die in a dinghy by his mutinous crew.
  — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
• Mutiny or any mutinous act committed on board a vessel at sea.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 7 June 2019
• Seems like a good fit for a capable first officer now marred by her mutinous past.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
• At half-time, Argentina’s match ball was clearly working wonders, and the home crowd were in mutinous shock.
  — SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Prigozhin leading a mutinous march towards Moscow just weeks ago, now dead.
  — ABC News, 27 Aug. 2023
• Some were mutinous sailors, and others may have been captured by pirates themselves.
  — National Geographic, 2 July 2020
• After Delano finally sees the truth his men overwhelm the mutinous slaves.
  — Andrew Delbanco, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• How can a mere scent encapsulate the mutinous desires that even the shyest, most genteel among us are harboring these days?
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
• Niger President Mohamed Bazoum says he is being held hostage by the mutinous soldiers.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
• About 100 military members have planned the takeover since August, according to one of the mutinous soldiers.
  — Sam Mednick, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2022
• Relationships between the mutinous clubs and those left behind will be repaired, at least for now.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2021
• Security forces tried to disperse crowds that came out to support the mutinous soldiers.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 Jan. 2022
• Restaurant manager Ismet Morgul, 59, said he was taken prisoner by the mutinous soldiers and forced to lie on the ground for hours.
  — Jared Malsin, Time, 14 July 2017
• The result is a delicious read, both seductive and mutinous.
  — David Dobbs, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2017
• World leaders condemned the mutinous uprisings as attacks on villages and army posts gained steam.
  — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
• Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising prompted mutinous soldiers to overthrow the president of a decade.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
• But one of the mutinous soldiers told AP a group of about 100 soldiers has been secretly planning to overthrow Kabore since August.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 24 Jan. 2022
• Well while dealing with mutinous students hell-bent on staging Macbeth.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• The government also had to bow to the pay demands of mutinous soldiers and striking government workers.
  — Bloomberg.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• In March 2012 mutinous soldiers angry at the government’s handling of a rebellion in the north ousted the president, Amadou Toumani Touré.
  — The Economist, 19 Aug. 2020
• Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising by Tuaregs prompted mutinous soldiers to overthrow the president of a decade.
  — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
• Mali has been in turmoil since a 2012 uprising prompted mutinous soldiers to overthrow the country’s president of a decade.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• Years later, he was shipwrecked off the coast of Texas and killed in 1687 by mutinous soldiers, according to historians cited by the Liberts.
  — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
• At the White House, Dumpty revelled in this mutinous typhoon Like a happy toddler bingeing on his favorite cartoon.
  — John Lithgow, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Nam, meanwhile, gently pokes fun at K-pop conventions and calms a mutinous cast that threatens to rebel against his nonsensical rules.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• One tense predicament replaces another, from poison gas attacks to mutinous passengers to orders to kill the co-pilot or shoot down the plane.
  — Malcom Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• His obsession soon jeopardizes the mutinous crew when the gigantic and deadly creature attacks the ship.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
• Another group of mutinous soldiers attempted a coup in 2019 but was quickly overpowered.
  — Yves Laurent Goma and Sam Mednick The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024