How to Use secessionist in a Sentence

secessionist

noun

• Once the Civil War broke out in April 1861, secessionists converged on the city.
  — Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2024
• In April, though, secessionists seized the port city of Aden and declared the region autonomous.
  — The Economist, 4 June 2020
• The Nigeria Police Force blamed secessionist groups in the southeast region for the attack which occurred in April.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 13 Sep. 2021
• The would-be secessionists in the Spanish region of Catalonia are about to get a reality check.
  — Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2017
• The proclamation only applied to secessionist states that were fighting against the Union during the Civil War.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 15 June 2021
• If a state that led the secessionist charge in 1860 and repressed African-Americans for a century thereafter can change, so can others.
  — Tom Still, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2017
• The trend is bipartisan and transregional; secessionist sentiment has even emerged in the last two states to join the union—Alaska and Hawaii.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2020
• Five weeks after his inauguration, the secessionists fired on Fort Sumter and the slaughter of the Civil War began.
  — Sean Wilentz, New York Times, 21 May 2018
• We are clued in to the lodger’s identity (the actor family, the secessionist loyalties).
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• Indeed, the decline of the secessionist movement would coincide neatly with the Hindu right’s rise.
  — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• The Sikh secessionist movement has since faded in India.
  — Amy Qin, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Of course, Baltimore cannot be called a Northern city like New York (although secessionist sympathy remained strong for a time in the latter).
  — Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2020
• There were echoes of this in Palin's own career, given her ties to the secessionist Alaska Independence Party.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
• That in turn, would deepen the rift between secessionists and the central government and likely spur more violence.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 2 Oct. 2017
• Those three groups would readily band together to oust Sánchez, who is seen by the right-wing opposition as too soft on the Catalan secessionist movement.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2019
• Instead, the results made clear that the rise of Vox had more to do with the nationalist response to a 2017 explosion of secessionist fervor in Spain’s Catalonia region.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• Puigdemont -- the former mayor of Girona, one of Catalonia's largest cities -- is a staunch secessionist, and his ruling coalition in the regional government wants to leave Spain.
  — chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
• To state the obvious: Christians were found among both the abolitionists and the secessionists, the segregationists and the Freedom Riders.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
• In order to secure votes against Rajoy from Catalonia's separatists, Sanchez had to promise to open talks with the secessionists about the future of the northeastern region.
  — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2018
• American secessionists have proven keen for the support.
  — Casey Michel, Slate Magazine, 4 May 2017
• The third person in that race, Win Carpenter, a prominent far-right voice in the State of Jefferson secessionist movement, did not advance to the general election.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• At the party, a dignitary remarks about General Zlatan's absence at the winter fête, and his plans to create a secessionist alliance with the Fjerdans.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2021
• Tempers flared after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Madrid, with secessionists taking to the streets, halting some trains by placing burning tires and wood on tracks, and blocking roads as well as the airport entrance.
  — Aritz Parra and Ciaran Giles, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2019
• Assad’s government has cast the SDF as a secessionist force that has been pilfering the country’s wealth while controlling Syria’s major oil fields.
  — Vladimir Isachenkov, ajc, 25 Apr. 2023
• Win Carpenter, a prominent far-right voice in the State of Jefferson secessionist movement, was running third.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• The extremism of both the abolitionists and secessionists, the argument goes, prevented any compromise between North and South, which led to the Civil War.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
• The secessionist war had quickly consumed far eastern Ukraine, the region colloquially known as Donbas, and then spread west.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• Sanchez, a prominent secessionist who was elected to parliament last December, has been held in a prison near Madrid since October.
  — Fox News, 9 Mar. 2018
• The coalition is still far from forming a government as Sanchez still needs the support of several other parties, most notably two secessionist Catalan groups.
  — Rodrigo Orihuela, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• The film is set in what appears to be the present, but in this version of the present a combination of strongman tactics and secessionist movements have fractured the United States into multiple armed, politically unspecified factions.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024