Definition of Insurgent

a rebel; one of several people who take up arms against the local state authority

Examples of Insurgent in a sentence

For his crimes against the state, he was tried as an enemy insurgent.  🔊

He was classified as an enemy insurgent and troops were ordered to capture him dead or alive.  🔊

The soldiers were trained to shoot any enemy insurgent on sight.  🔊

After taking up arms against his government, the man knew he would forever be an insurgent.  🔊

Though he was publicly aligned with the controlling party, he was secretly funding the insurgent movement.  🔊

At the time of the American Revolution, George Washington was the leading insurgent.  🔊

By signing the declaration to secede, he realized he was now an insurgent.  🔊

Sick of the treatment his people endured, he vowed to become an insurgent and bring down the system from inside.  🔊

He caught the insurgent trying to sneak in and sabotage the city's power grid.  🔊

Though he did not wish to become an insurgent, his distaste for the government made it difficult not to act.  🔊

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