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Example sentences for "rebellious"

Lexicographically close words:
rebelled; rebelles; rebelling; rebellion; rebellions; rebelliously; rebelliousness; rebellow; rebels; rebind
  1. And so he scarcely wants to go home at all; and whereas he would like to return with love and joy, he has to march with thunder and lightning into his rebellious realm.

  2. With quite a different step he approached the house where he was, in a sense, to govern, and where they were waiting for him as a rebellious regiment awaits its new colonel.

  3. As soon as the power of the State has conquered the rebellious masses, the first thing it proceeds to do is to restore the forest to its former condition and again to put in force the forest charters which had been torn up.

  4. But these are murmurings, you will say, rebellious murmurings against the proclamations of God.

  5. Rebellious to us; badly conducted in the sight of the world.

  6. She held the biscuit in her fingers, resting on her lap, and, in spite of her efforts, the rebellious tears forced themselves to her eyes.

  7. Their cold rules beat down my rebellious heart; beat it down to hardness.

  8. The paternal authority, though so gently expressed, exasperated his rebellious temper.

  9. Thus far he had found his nephew tractable, and even blindly obedient; and now he had suddenly become rebellious and threatening.

  10. Then Lucifer daringly usurps the seat of the Almighty, and receives the homage of the rebellious angels.

  11. Rebellious painters are a good deal commoner than rebellious clergymen.

  12. For reintroducing the death penalty into the army as a means of putting an end to treason and the brutal murder of officers by rebellious soldiers, the Bolsheviki excoriated Kerensky.

  13. Does this mean that free Russia is a nation of rebellious slaves?

  14. Silently Valentine moved forward, but her heart was burning with rebellious hate.

  15. I will have no rebellious slaves to groan over Della Scala's grave, and hatch me plots from the ashes of their bones--we will raze the cities to the ground, and put them to the sword.

  16. The terrified populace were expecting almost at the next moment to see him return with an avenging army to visit his rebellious subjects with the most terrible retribution.

  17. Every day brought new rumors of the preparation of the emigrants to invade France, aided by the armies of monarchical Europe, and to desolate the rebellious empire with fire and sword.

  18. Standing before him like a rebellious boy in petticoats, her body pushed forward, her hands behind her back, with flaming cheeks and sparkling eyes, she would declare at last that she was ready to do whatever he wanted.

  19. Nor did the holy words fall upon a rebellious spirit; for many years his Majesty had been a devout believer.

  20. Fimbria, the rebellious Roman, spoiled it in the Mithridatick War, boasting that he had subdued Troy in eleven days which the Grecians could not take in almost as many years.

  21. Grace first contrived the way To save rebellious man; And all the steps that grace display, Which drew the wondrous plan.

  22. See where rebellious passions rage, And fierce desires and lust engage; The meanest foe of all the train Has thousands and ten thousands slain.

  23. Subdues the disobedient will, Drives doubt and discontent away; And thy rebellious child is still.

  24. And didst thou bleed, and groan, and die, For vile rebellious foes?

  25. But when we view thy strange design To save rebellious worms, Where justice and compassion join In their divinest forms, 4 Our thoughts are lost in reverent awe, We love and we adore; The brightest angel never saw So much of God before.

  26. This mark of supremacy over a rebellious people we owe as a pledge of their homage to our royal father; and as a tribute of our gratitude to him for having allowed us to treat at all with so undutiful a part of his dominions.

  27. But just as he had crossed the Carron, and the Southron banners appeared in sight, Lord Athol, at the head of his rebellious colleagues, rode up to him.

  28. Seize that rebellious man," cried Soulis to his marshals.

  29. I live, but still my heart will mourn, mourn her I have lost--and mourn that my rebellious nature will not be more resigned to the judgments of its God.

  30. Dangerous indeed is his rebellious spirit," cried Edward, in almost speechless wrath, "since it affects even the duty of my own house!

  31. But when she heard, from the indignant Edwin, of the rebellious conduct of the young Lord Badenoch, and that the regent had abdicated, her consternation superseded all caution.

  32. He told Wallace that he had met the two sons of the late Lord Badenoch in Guienne; that James, who now pretended such resentment of his father's death, had ever been a rebellious son.

  33. Feared you not to fall a sacrifice to my indignation against the mad leader of your rebellious countrymen?

  34. On the morning of the third day, when she was chiding herself for such rebellious despondence, her female attendant entered to say, that a friar was come to conduct her where she would see messengers from Lady mar.

  35. When their king appears, then these rebellious heads may be made to bow.

  36. You, Rice ap Howel, Shall do good service to her majesty, Being of countenance in your country here, To follow these rebellious runagates.

  37. Don John of Austria, who saved Europe and Christianity at the Gulf of Lepanto, and had repeatedly humbled the Crescent in its proudest fortresses, was chosen to crush the rebellious Flemings.

  38. What would have been the fate of the peaceable and unoffending inhabitants, if success had attended your rebellious designs, it is useless to conjecture.

  39. An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.

  40. On account of your rebellious manner to me I was tempted to go further than I should have done; and when you still would keep playing the same tantalizing part I went further still, and married her.

  41. O no--I don't want to be rebellious in that way," she said sadly.

  42. You are spoken of in Scripture as a stiff-necked, rebellious people.

  43. If this was not foreseen, then we can discover clearly the reason why Jehovah complains of their rebellious conduct.

  44. Syria, to bring again into obedience the rebellious cities and states.

  45. It is the gods, their lords, who overthrow the enemy and the rebellious princes before them.

  46. At my return, Suzub, a child of Babylonia, whom the rebellious people in the land of Sumir and Accad had raised up, came to offer me battle.

  47. The rebellious princes and their leading adherents are often put to death with exquisite cruelty; they are flayed, or beheaded, or impaled, and yet such terrorism produces no visible effects.

  48. Instead of bringing back the rebellious troops to obedience, he allowed himself when he arrived in the camp to be saluted by them as king.

  49. But ye are a rebellious people, lying children, and will not hear the command of Jehovah.

  50. Hence also the history, or rather fable, intended to awe the minds of the rebellious redskins, and restore them to Christanity, or serfdom.

  51. But two things Snoilsky and Ibsen had in common, a passionate enthusiasm for their art, and a rebellious attitude towards their immediate precursors in it.

  52. It is certain that 1851 began darkly for the young man, and that his misfortunes encouraged in him a sour and rebellious temper.

  53. In Christian theology Satan is the arch-rebel; hell is full of rebellious angels and disobedient men and women.

  54. Always the race has owed its progress to the daring of the rebel or of the rebellious few.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebellious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bellicose; breakaway; complaining; contrary; contumacious; cranky; defiant; disappointed; discontented; disgruntled; disobedient; disorderly; displeased; disputatious; dissatisfied; dissenting; envious; extreme; factious; fractious; grousing; grumbling; inflammatory; insubordinate; insurgent; insurrectionary; malcontent; murmuring; mutinous; muttering; objecting; obstinate; obstructive; peevish; petulant; protesting; pugnacious; querulous; rebel; rebellious; recalcitrant; refractory; reluctant; repellent; resentful; resistant; restive; restless; revolutionary; riotous; schismatic; seditious; stubborn; subversive; traitorous; treasonable; turbulent; unaccommodating; uneasy; unfulfilled; ungovernable; ungoverned; unhappy; unruly; unsatisfied; unyielding