Example Sentences

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"Maybe I was rebelling against everything, but not knowing what I was trying to aim for at the same time."

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“I was rebelling against everything I knew,” she told The Times in 2010.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2023

This is how I was rebelling as an actress.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2023

Harris said Street, whom he’d first read about in the Detroit News, was rebelling against societal constraints.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2016

It was rebelling and would have leaped over the side of the mountain, to all our destruction, in its attempt to unseat me had I relaxed control for a single second.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou