rebels
Example Sentences
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Dreamers, for example, fantasise about the future too much, while rebels feel a lack of control and so procrastinate in protest.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
A combined offensive among some rebels starting late 2023 saw them win stunning advances, bearing down on the second largest city Mandalay -- with speculation they may even capture the ancient royal capital.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
How did Great Britain, possessing both an empire on which the sun never set and the greatest navy the world had ever seen, lose to ragamuffin American rebels?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Peter Flynn, a 54-year-old local electrician, likens Reform’s rise to the peasants’ revolt in 1381, when a group of disaffected rebels stormed the Tower of London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Our situation, I find, is thus: Williamsburg—its Palace and its House of Burgesses—lies utterly abandoned by all royal authority, and is now the haunt of rebels.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
