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How to use the word rebellious in a Sentence?

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It’s totally against what tattoos stand for: the permanence, the commitment, the rebellious [spirit], everyone in my age group is going to laugh at this and say it’s not for strong people. It’s not the real deal.

– Michael Bellamy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Added to this rebellious component of the behavior is the anonymity provided by social media and the disinhibition it enables, once posted, these displays will generate a certain amount of social reinforcement( i.e. likes and thumbs ups), and so the behavior spreads.

– Susan Whitbourne

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Finally, I realised that No One, howsoever you may consider dearest to you, will never mend their ways to appeal you, for they will only follow their own nature. Accept it! You may like it or dislike it. The irony is in the process there may be phases in individual’s lives where their actions/ behaviour may appease you, but that’s never to be misunderstood that they have changed for you. From an evolutionary psychology standpoint, that’s a rebellious attitude that shapes our society!”

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I would rather die without the surgery and be able to still sing in my regular voice and still travel, at first [my parents] .?.?. thought I was being rebellious. But where we’re at now, they understand.

– Kendrick David Evans

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The Internet scrutiny of her body has pushed her over the limit that any person would experience, perhaps her seemingly inappropriate posting of nearly nude photos is an in-your-face rebellious response. [It’s] a way of asserting that she owns her body and not the massive anonymous invisible crowd of critics out there who have been haranguing her for the past months.

– Montana Miller

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Profound thinkers either become astute lovers or rebellious spirit”

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Lots of Hong Kong people think of us as troublemakers, young people are more appreciative, I guess this has to do with the spirit of being rebellious.

– Echo Delta

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

– Simone de Beauvoir

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

– Aldous Huxley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'.

– Keven Kwaku

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

– Tom Robbins

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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