Sentence examples for insurgents from inspiring English sources

The word "insurgents" is correct and usable in written English.
It usually refers to people who act in revolt or rebellion against an established government or authority. Example: The rebels, or insurgents, wanted to overthrow the oppressive regime and bring about a more democratic system.

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Insurgents killed at least four soldiers in an ambush on Monday.

Miraculously, he survived the twin explosions, believed to be the work of Islamist insurgents Boko Haram, that left at least 123 dead.

"In Donetsk and Luhansk districts armed insurgents are out of control, attacking people at will, abducting and beating political activists and members of district electoral commissions and the police clearly have no control over them," said Yulia Gorbunova of Human Rights Watch, who is in the region.

Okonta Emeka in Delta state told us that defeating insurgents must be the top priority for Buhari and his cabinet.

A 19-year-old said: "I was told to approach a group of five men we saw in a nearby village and lure them to where the insurgents were hiding".

As troops fanned out in the town awaiting the arrival of Hawker Hunter jets to bomb and destroy civilian government, Allende desperately but vainly tried to contact Pinochet and for a few hours was convinced that his military commander had been kidnapped and silenced by the insurgents.

This was a country dominated by terror as the hardline government fought a shadowy civil war against Islamist insurgents who sought to turn Algeria into "Iran on the Mediterranean".

He said the residents had been warned to evacuate Gombe, which has been attacked by the insurgents previously.

Insurgents from the Boko Haram terrorist network are blamed for attacks that have killed more than 1,500 people this year alone.

Mainstream politics is littered with such train wrecks, but mainstream parties in our kind of first-past-the-post system are usually strong enough to absorb or reject charismatic, but disruptive insurgents.

Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger this month launched an unprecedented joint effort to crush the Islamists, raising hopes that the insurgents - who have outgunned Nigeria's national army - might finally have met their match.

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