sedition - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • cause: On the days following this meeting these three men were arrested and charged under DORA with the offense of intending to cause sedition.
  • foment: For this purpose former German Communist agents were employed to foment sedition and to arrange for acts of sabotage in Germany.
  • shift: If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot.
  • spread: By 1531 the king was demanding the surrender of Tyndale by the Emperor, on the charge that he was spreading sedition in England.
  • regard: But publications were still subject to the laws of the land regarding sedition, blasphemy, obscenity and libel.
  • find: They took me into the guard-house and searched me, but they found no sedition on me.

Adjective modifier

  • secular: And how Dahl, who believed passionately in spreading secular sedition, would have enjoyed it.
  • political: What is more dangerous tho is the incitement to political sedition.

Modifies a noun

  • law: This resulted in the passing of sedition laws, including bans on free speech.
  • trial: Bishop in the Dock: the sedition trial of James Liston Rory Sweetman, Otago University.
  • hush: May he sedition hush and like a torrent rush, Rebellious Scots to crush, God save the King.

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