How to Use mutineer in a Sentence

mutineer

noun
  • That door is smashed in, actually, when a band of mutineers take an axe to the door of the prince’s cabin.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • His squad now contained both mutineers and their replacements.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Russian mercenary chief and mutineer Prigozhin killed in jet crash, state media say.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Some were frustrated that the deal to defuse the conflict allows the mutineers to escape punishment.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • Reserved for cowards, mutineers, and the like, decimation in Antony’s world meant removal of a tenth.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 July 2019
  • Then the African slaves burned down the mutineers' housing and went to live with Native Americans in the area.
    — al, 23 Aug. 2019
  • On the coup night tanks closed traffic in Istanbul and crowds of people helped overpower the mutineers, in clashes that left many dead.
    — Yeliz Candemir, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • But as mixed martial arts have bulled into the mainstream, Diaz remains a reliable mutineer.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • While the fate of the defiant mutineer and his fighters remain uncertain, there are signs that his hold over onetime backers may have been weakened by the saga.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 June 2023
  • In the story's climactic flashback to the event, the mutineers are forced to quickly massacre the crew when their stash of guns is discovered by the ship's doctor.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 11 July 2017
  • Today Pitcairn remains one of the last outposts of the British Empire that the mutineers had sought to escape.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2019
  • But his army chief poured cold water on such hopes, saying in a statement that the army was backing the mutineers to avoid bloodshed and prevent infighting among the security forces.
    — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • In the story's climactic flashback to the event, the father explains the mutineers were forced to quickly massacre the crew when their stash of guns was discovered by the ship's doctor.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 12 July 2017
  • Hundreds of people gathered for a rally against the revolt close to the military headquarters in Abidjan, which was still being held by the mutineers.
    — Reuters, New York Times, 13 May 2017
  • Sergeant Kone said the mutineers were also active in Man, near the western border with Liberia, and Bondoukou in the east.
    — Reuters, New York Times, 13 May 2017
  • Prigozhin and his mutineers were then given haven in Belarus, where their arrival has prompted Ukraine and Poland to tighten security.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The mutineers who have taken over the strangest house in Game of Thrones history also turn Craster's daughters into their property.
    — Paul Schrodt, GQ, 11 July 2017
  • Among Putin’s henchmen, Zolotov’s background stands in sharp contrast to that of Prigozhin, the brash mutineer who ordered his men to advance on Moscow over the weekend.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 27 June 2023
  • Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a mutant, a mutineer and a mutule.
    — Lore Sjöberg, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2007
  • As Singh does for coups in his book, Dwyer describes in hers a mutineers’ playbook, detailing the tactics mutineers commonly use to communicate their grievances.
    — Kim Yi Dionne, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
  • For a leader who painstakingly crafted a reputation as the arbiter of order, Putin looked detached and indecisive as Prigozhin’s ragtag mutineers made their way up the road to Moscow.
    — William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The latter is exactly why the Bounty mutineers and a handful of Tahitians in their party chose to settle here in 1790; so they couldn't be easily invaded by the British Navy.
    — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2023
  • For 43 years after the extradition of Robbins, not one person, citizen or alien, would be surrendered by the federal government to another country, including other mutineers from the Hermione.
    — A. Roger Ekirch, Smithsonian, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Pitcairn is well-known as the island on which Fletcher Christian and other British mutineers from the HMS Bounty took refuge after the 1789 events that toppled Capt.
    — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026

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