How to Use separatist in a Sentence

separatist

noun
Definition of separatistnext
Synonyms for separatistnext
  • The village was cut in two: one part in Ukraine and the other controlled by pro-Russian separatist forces.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • So this is my way of doing a lesbian separatist utopia.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Since 2014, pro-Russian separatist forces have fought in the region to gain control.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Serret is the first high-profile separatist to return since then.
    — Joseph Wilson, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The flight was shot out of the sky over territory held by pro-Russian separatists, killing all 298 people on board.
    — Michelle Krupa, CNN, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Yet the amnesty for Catalan separatists who sought to break away from Madrid six years ago is widely unpopular in Spain.
    — Beatriz Ríos, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • China calls Tsai - re-elected by a landslide in 2020 on a promise to stand up to Beijing - a separatist and refuses to speak to her.
    — Fox News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • There were fears of violence on Election Day, from Islamic militants in the north to separatists in the south.
    — Chinedu Asadu, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • After running away from the Black separatist cult where she was raised, the teenage Vern attempts to raise her newborn twins in the woods, free from the constraints and dangers of society.
    — Sadie Gennis, Vulture, 8 July 2021
  • Suspicions focused on separatists who had vowed to disrupt the events.
    — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The boyhood friend called Kirik in 2014, before Russian troops and a proxy force of local separatists seized control of eastern Ukraine and captured Crimea.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Protesters in Zahedan denied the claim and residents of the city said no overt separatist slogans were seen during the protests.
    — Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The calls sparked further clashes between the separatists and the Indian government, which claimed many lives.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 6 Oct. 2023
  • And in 2014, the singer was photographed holding a Novorussian flag—which represents a Russian separatist region in Ukraine.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The largely Roman Catholic nation's southern region has been the scene of decades of Muslim separatist unrest.
    — Jim Gomez, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The rest went to a newly independent state of Moldova—which was then riven in a conflict by pro-Russian separatists.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Moscow has said its forces are concentrating on the east, where Russia has backed pro-Moscow separatist forces since 2014.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2022
  • China refuses to talk to Tsai, calling her a separatist.
    — NBC News, 26 Sep. 2021
  • That is especially true in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region, which is home to two right-wing separatist parties.
    — Matt Apuzzo, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Russian forces in Starobilsk had just fled, his father said, and separatist fighters were now manning the checkpoints.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Lai Ching-te, a former doctor and the current vice president, who Beijing sees as a staunch separatist, will be Taiwan’s next leader.
    — Damien Cave, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The Chinese government said the attackers were Uyghur separatists who had spent time in Shadian.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • Across the street from him is a yellow brick house where, some other townspeople had complained, a rabidly pro-Russia separatist lived.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Putin was first elected partly because of his hard-line position against Chechen separatists.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Across the street from him stands a yellow brick house where, some other townspeople had complained, a rabidly pro-Russia separatist lived.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Aragonès appealed to his estranged separatist brethren to set aside the differences that provoked the early election in January.
    — Joseph Wilson, ajc, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The battle-weary region has been fighting pro-Russia separatist fighters since 2014.
    — Vanessa Gera, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Turkey has faced regular attacks in the past from Kurdish separatists, members of the Islamic State and other groups.
    — Safak Timur, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The Baluch Liberation Army, an ethnic separatist group that's operated in the region since 2000, said in a statement the strikes targeted and killed its people.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The pro-Kremlin leader has also subdued the Chechen separatist movement that fought for independence from Russia for almost two decades.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'separatist.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: