How to Use secession in a Sentence

secession

noun

• In 2011, one of many wars ended with the secession of South Sudan.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• While Cruz's comments were light-hearted, the prospect of a Texas secession is not new.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2021
• The very first seeds of secession were sown at the First Baptist Church of Columbia.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 10 June 2020
• Attempts at political secession spread as far as Odessa to the south and Kharkiv to the west.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• One proponent first put the odds of secession at 1 in 500.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
• Sudan was the largest country in Africa prior to the secession of South Sudan in 2011.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 3 May 2021
• The threat of Scottish secession has, at least for the moment, receded.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2021
• On top of all this, red-state secession would be self-defeating.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
• Thus far, voters in seven of the counties have approved the secession plan.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 4 June 2021
• Tyler Brown, for example, thinks secession could be a good idea.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• The three judges, however, wrote that this argument did not rule out that secession could be one of the meanings.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 27 July 2021
• Historians can trace a Texas secession movement all the way back to the post-Civil War era.
  — Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2022
• That said, the threat of secession can be a useful tool to ensure La Jolla’s needs are not overlooked in the push for greater equity.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• More than an effort to raise revenue, then, the political point of a wealth tax is that such secession will not stand.
  — Noah Millman, The Week, 28 Oct. 2021
• Among smaller motifs were the sun symbol of the Biafra secession, a flower blossom, the black panther, the Afro comb.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2021
• Pogue insists that much about the secession effort always has been a little hazy.
  — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2022
• Brown’s futile raid created a sense of crisis in the South that paved the way for the secession movement a little more than a year later.
  — Adam Rowe, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• These fears will hardly be assuaged by the two republics’ secession.
  — Daniel Treisman, CNN, 22 Feb. 2022
• If the idea of the U.S. dissolving seems far-fetched, one reason is that we have been trained to think of secession and civil war as something long settled.
  — Eric Herschthal, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2020
• He was found guilty of inciting secession by a judge who was handpicked by Carrie Lam, the city’s leader.
  — Dan Strumpf, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2021
• According to the Lost Cause, secession was a legal right and the war was a result of northern aggression.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 Mar. 2020
• On the wall hung a lithograph of Alabama’s secession ordinance — which John W. Inzer had been the youngest and the last delegate to sign.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Nov. 2022
• If the debt is so big that the state can’t cover it, then that’s leverage to reach a different type of settlement, such as a tax-free zone or even secession.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
• Not all people in District 2 are supportive of a secession and there are strong feelings on both sides, Kennedy said at the meeting.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2022
• Biedermann said this is not a bill for secession, but is rather meant to conduct a dialogue.
  — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
• This is, after all, the same platform that calls for a secession referendum.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 9 Aug. 2022
• The next stage is for the sultan to gain recognition of his micronation’s secession from the United States, although that might be a little far-fetched even for Williams.
  — Richard Collett, CNN, 8 June 2023
• The students, ages 16 to 21, are being investigated under a part of the law that deals with secession.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 July 2020
• Chinese officials insist that last year’s protests were a bid to split the motherland and seek Hong Kong’s secession.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
• The clear geographical divisions that led to secession and civil war do not exist today.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024