mutiny - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • quell: I took up an oar and tried to quell the mutiny; I cried no!
  • face: Onboard Voyager, Tuvok, who is now in command, faces a near mutiny.
  • cause: A management style that creates action on one type of project could cause mutiny on another.
  • spark: This mood helped to spark the mutiny at Invergordon.

Adjective modifier

  • naval: In June 1797 he was involved in a naval mutiny at Sheerness that was fighting to improve the conditions of seamen.
  • Indian: At the outbreak of the Indian mutiny in 1857 he was in China in command of the Shannon, frigate.
  • near: Onboard Voyager, Tuvok, who is now in command, faces a near mutiny.
  • famous: He arrived on April 11th 1789 and shortly afterward, the famous mutiny occurred.
  • serious: Not long afterward a serious mutiny broke out in his fleet before Cadiz, which he suppressed with prompt and necessary severity.
  • great: Suddenly, without a note of warning, the great mutiny broke upon us.

Preposition: on

  • board: Not the Caine Mutiny The Head finally throws her hand in just before thereâs mutiny on board.

Noun used with modifier

  • prison: The eight defendants in trial two were all charged with prison mutiny.
  • army: Spicer also was a key character in a 1997 army mutiny in Papua New Guinea.
  • troop: Early May The Earl of Ormonde's troops mutiny in Dublin, .

Preposition: in

  • army: The Emperor now sent a new governor to Britain, named Pertinax, who quickly stamped out all signs of mutiny in the army.

Preposition: of

  • soldier: They favored William of Orange who was actually sent to Britain to suppress a supporting mutiny of soldiers that had been stationed in Holland.

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