How to Use secede in a Sentence

secede

verb

• South Carolina seceded from the Union in 1860.
• The novel tells of a tiny group that tries to get Vermont to secede from the Union in 2017.
  — John J. Kelly, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2017
• Many in the south dislike the government, as well as the Houthis, and hope to secede.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• With her gone, the calls for Scotland to secede from the U.K. may increase.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 29 Aug. 2019
• Half of Trump voters think that maybe the red and blue states ought to secede from each other.
  — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2021
• Platform calls for Texas to secede from the United States.
  — Mike Ward, Houston Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
• But why is Catalonia trying to secede in the first place?
  — Lucia Benavides, Teen Vogue, 5 Oct. 2017
• Missouri was a slave state that never seceded from the Union.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• In 1861, the Virginia State Convention voted to secede from the Union.
  — azcentral, 17 Apr. 2018
• Why do some Americans want to secede from their states?
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
• Right here in Maryland, though the state never seceded from the United States.
  — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• But unless either team secedes from the Big Ten, this matchup will take place at least every three years from now.
  — Scott Dochterman, ajc, 3 Nov. 2017
• In 1861, Texas chose to secede from the United States and join the Confederacy.
  — Travis Pinson, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
• And there’s Calexit, the movement for the state to secede from the Union entirely, an idea that gained steam after Trump’s election.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Or Anchorage could secede from state laws in regards to crime.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2018
• Arizona seceded from the Union in March 1861 as a territory, not a state, but in about a year's time the Union had put Arizona back in its place.
  — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 9 June 2017
• In 1861: Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
  — oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2020
• Gulf Shores is the first city to secede from the county school system and will open its doors as a separate city school system in August.
  — al.com, 22 June 2019
• Aside from the fact that Texas cannot legally secede from the United States, such a bill would also receive plenty of pushback.
  — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2021
• The civil war was preceded by the country's bloody conflict to secede from Sudan in 2011.
  — TheWeek, 22 Feb. 2020
• In one moment, a news reporter announces over the radio that 19 states have seceded.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
• Last year, an effort dubbed Calexit sought to bring the question of whether California should secede from the US to this year's ballot.
  — Madison Park, CNN, 13 June 2018
• Soon after Lincoln's election, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.
  — Anthony Mason, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2024
• Moreover, state law, as seen in the Tennessee case, can be crucial in the relative ease with which districts can secede.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
• In October, the idea of California seceding from the Union was broached.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Jan. 2018
• The only thing holding the government together is a desire to secede from Spain at any cost.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 2 Oct. 2017
• Flying the confederate flag bothers me more—as the South attempted to secede from the same Union that the flag represents.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• The first trailer suggests that 19 states have seceded from the Union, and that Nick Offerman is president.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2024
• In 1860, the country’s South—led by pro-slavery politicians—seceded, sparking the Civil War.
  — Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
• Rising water across cities have caused officials to temporarily close roads, and officials have urged residents to remain off the streets until the water secedes.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024