Sentence examples for he seceded from inspiring English sources

"I know one chap, when he was younger, he seceded; I think it was his bedroom he seceded with.

The Kentucky doctor was so outraged that he seceded — and started his own Board of Ophthalmology, so he could certify himself.

During the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth he commanded the royal troops in Somerset, but in 1688, with John Churchill (afterward Duke of Marlborough), he seceded to William of Orange, in whose service he died after receiving a wound at the siege of Cork in Ireland.

When Yusuf was killed in 2009, he was seceded by his deputy Abubakar Shekau.

If Bavaria is at risk of ending up in a double transfer union under the oppression of both Brussels and Berlin, it should, he thinks, secede.

If Hialeah seceded, he says, it would be hard-pressed to come up with the money to build its own county infrastructure.

Osama bin Laden did not need Edward Snowden's revelations about Prism to realise the US was listening in to every bit of electronic communication: he had already seceded from the world of telephony and reverted to couriers.

When Virginia seceded, he returned to the South to fight for the Confederacy.

Think about it -- a man who openly talked of secession runs for president of the same country he would have seceded from just a few years earlier.

Following a brief appointment as superintendent at West Point in 1861, after the South seceded he resigned from the United States Army and became the first brigadier general in the Confederate States Army.

As Southern senators announced they would resign if their states seceded, he reminded Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis that if Southerners would only hold to their seats, the Democrats would control the Senate, and could defend the South's interests against any infringement by Lincoln.