How to Use seditious in a Sentence

seditious

adjective
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  • By the end of the seditious melee, five people were dead.
    — Lauren Rankin, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2021
  • This sounds seditious, Yura thought, and looked around.
    — Vladimir Sorokin, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Four members of the far-right Proud Boys were found guilty of the high crime of seditious conspiracy.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 7 May 2023
  • The seditious conspiracy charges are among the most serious filed so far, but aren’t the first of their kind.
    — Michael Kunzelman and Alanna Durkin Richer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2022
  • Who are the Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack?
    — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Smith did not charge Trump with seditious conspiracy, a charge that was used against leaders of the on-the-ground riots.
    — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That gave the North considerable leverage to impose its will on the vanquished traitors of the seditious South.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The Proud Boys are charged with seditious conspiracy over the attack.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The year began with the nation’s biggest jerk encouraging a bunch of seditious jerks to march up to the Capitol.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Bertino faces a maximum 20 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and up to 10 years in prison for the firearms charge.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Leaders of the Proud Boys have been charged with seditious conspiracy.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 10 June 2022
  • But wrapping all of those crimes up into a seditious conspiracy would be a tough sell.
    — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Leaders of two groups − four of the Proud Boys and two of the Oath Keepers − were convicted of the most serious charge of seditious conspiracy.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
  • For subscribers:How an Arizona man was charged with seditious conspiracy in the U.S.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
  • At the time, this project did not feel naive, idealistic, or radical, let alone seditious.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Four of those who have pleaded guilty to felonies have pleaded guilty to the federal charge of seditious conspiracy.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The seditious conspiracy trial is the second of three from the Capitol siege to unfold blocks from the rioting.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Jost also addressed how Stuart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, was found guilty this week of seditious conspiracy.
    — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The Insurrection Act is not just part of the case against Rhodes, who faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy.
    — Devlin Barrett and Spencer S. Hsu, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • But Cheney made a blunt case that the party and the country cannot forget -- not least because the peril from the seditious ex-President is still growing.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 May 2021
  • Some members of those groups have been charged with seditious conspiracy.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 21 June 2022
  • Rhodes could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy.
    — Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 5 May 2022
  • Luckily for Gottmik, most of the other queens are too busy collecting intel on the seditious Elliott with two T’s to notice.
    — Paul McCallion, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2021
  • The second seditious conspiracy trial begins this week, for members of the far-right Proud Boys.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Rhodes, of Granbury, Texas, and his co-defendants are the first people arrested in the Jan. 6 attack to stand trial on the charge of seditious conspiracy.
    — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The alleged teams and the cache of weapons are a central piece of the Department of Justice’s case against Rhodes and four associates charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst, ajc, 12 Oct. 2022
  • All five members have pleaded not guilty to the charge of seditious conspiracy, a charge rarely brought by the Justice Department, and other charges.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Lying about the results of a free election and inciting a seditious mob: unimpeachable.
    — Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • But a small, seditious group of serial memoirists complicate the endeavor.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • Their leader, their founder, Stewart Rhodes, was convicted of seditious conspiracy.
    — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 2 May 2024

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