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insurrection - use in sentences
Converse of object
- quell: Patty snapped upright to quell the insurrection, causing Splash to leap for safety.
- suppress: He suppressed an insurrection in Ireland ( 1650 ) with a severity remembered by the Irish Catholics with bitterness.
- organize: Moreover, animals will never organize an insurrection against us.
- lead: Nureddin was not only building a new Islamic superstate, he was also leading a popular insurrection to drive the invaders into the sea.
- launch: The ALO decided to launch an insurrection on August 5, 1979.
- make: The mayor put these questions: Does the Soviet intend to make an insurrection, and how about keeping order in the city?
Preposition: against
- rule: As soon as he was released he planned another insurrection against Siamese rule.
Adjective modifier
- armed: He tried to secure Soviet support for an armed insurrection in India.
- attempted: There was an attempted insurrection by the royalists against the Convention and Biot took part.
- communist: In 1923 he took part in the communist insurrection in Germany.
- Polish: He also visited Prussia where he became involved in the Polish insurrection.
- popular: Popular insurrection The popular uprising that defeated the military coup in April 2002 was a decisive turning point.
- urban: Why did barricades become a feature of urban insurrection uniquely in the nineteenth century?
Modifies a noun
- movement: By the end of 1978, the failure of the FAO to obtain a negotiated solution increased the stature of the insurrection movement.
Noun used with modifier
- slave: Herndon was charged with violating a law enacted by the Georgia legislature in 1861 against slave insurrections.
- Bolshevik: Weakened by dysentery, Ransome returned to Britain in October, and as a result missed the Bolshevik insurrection four weeks later.
- royalist: Mar 11 Penruddock's Uprising in the West Country: co-ordinated Royalist insurrections around the country fail to ignite.
- anarchist: Anarchist insurrection in Spanish Civil War - totally crushed.
Preposition: in
- country: The first is, if possible, to raise an insurrection in the country.
Preposition: of
- worker: Moscow supplied the arms to put down the insurrection of the workers against the parliamentary capitalist state.
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