How to Use mutiny in a Sentence

mutiny

1 of 2 noun
  • The mutiny was led by the ship's cook.
  • The sailors staged a mutiny and took control of the ship.
  • The seeds of mutiny are detectable.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • Sure enough, a small mutiny breaks out during lunch.
    — Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The good news here is that there’s no mutiny on deck in Santa Clara.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The game takes place aboard the Artemis ship, which is enduring a bloody mutiny.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Paxton has responded to the staff mutiny by promising to launch his own probe.
    — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 23 Oct. 2020
  • So this protest, this mutiny is really more about the primary dance.
    — Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There were some other problems early on as well, but what a difference a mutiny makes.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2023
  • There were some other problems early on as well, but what a difference a mutiny makes.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
  • There was a mutiny up in Logan, with guys refusing to play and wanting to quit.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
  • John Garang de Mabior leads a mutiny of army soldiers, reigniting the civil war.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • Still, despite the tumult, in the wake of Prigozhin’s mutiny few are cheering on future coups.
    — Ben Makuch, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
  • The mutiny would last just a day until Prigozhin called it off in line with a deal brokered by Belarus.
    — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • But during a massacre he was arrested for mutiny and hung, said Riley.
    — Kathleen Sharp For Propublica, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Beginning as a sailors’ mutiny in the port city of Kiel, the revolution spread by train.
    — Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • They were arrested and charged with mutiny, for which the penalty was execution.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2022
  • If this meal didn’t appear on Christmas Eve, mutiny would be imminent.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Daemon and Corlys look set to lose the war, and even Corlys' own brother starts fomenting a mutiny.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 4 Sep. 2022
  • If the Packers don't get Aaron Rodgers a first-round receiver, there should be a mutiny.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Following the mutiny, a naval board of inquiry was convened, to determine whether the captain had been at fault.
    — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • During the trial, Grier did not raise the issue of race and made public statements that the mutiny had been proven.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Streeting is the first member of Starmer’s cabinet to resign since the mutiny began.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
  • In any case, despite the motivations behind it the mutiny in the studio turned into a party.
    — Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The mutiny came after Prigozhin’s usefulness on the battlefield had faded.
    — Paul Sonne, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The story of the shipwreck of an 18th century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The story of the shipwreck of an 18th century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Two months after leading a mutiny against the Kremlin, a plane carrying Putin’s rival plunges to the ground.
    — ABC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The in-fighting and mutiny across ownership, staff, players and fans after a miserable campaign.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • The story of the shipwreck of an 18th-century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024

mutiny

2 of 2 verb
  • Which is why the elites will mutiny even before the army does - out of fear.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • How many starved to death, how many slit their own throats, how many tried to mutiny, how many walked the plank.
    — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • His executive team nearly mutinied a year after Kim took over and handed down his edict.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • After the officer in charge hanged one of the men, the crew mutinied, built their own ship, and sailed home, abandoning the fort some 11 months after their arrival.
    — Shanti Menon, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Elites, fearing for their safety, may mutiny, potentially leading to a civil war among Putin's security forces.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Pandemic fatigue is also making some subset of generally reliable Democrats crabby enough to mutiny for no particular reason.
    — David Faris, The Week, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Even before the Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin mutinied against Putin, this was a questionable assumption.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
  • Within days, however, Congo’s troops mutinied against their all-white officer corps (a holdover from the colonial era) and started terrorizing the European population.
    — Stephen R. Weissman, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2014
  • Playing an American in a production staffed by Australians, Brits, a Chilean director and a Hispanic DP, her brain kept mutinying.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2026
  • At least two groups claimed responsibility for the attack, one describing itself as a hacktivist organization and the other as part of the Wagner Group, the mercenaries who mutinied last week and marched most of the way to Moscow.
    — Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • The 16th-century adventurer, who first circumnavigated the globe by sea in 1522, wavers beneath the pressure of his pursuit, ultimately leading his men to mutiny and madness on the Malay Archipelago.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 18 Nov. 2025
  • In 1841, John Quincy Adams, a President turned congressman and Supreme Court advocate, appeared before the Court, seeking the freedom of people kidnapped from Africa who mutinied en route to America on the slave ship Amistad.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026

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