How to Use allied in a Sentence

allied

adjective
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  • The allied countries have been in talks on the matter for months.
    — Reuters, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • With the aid of allied politicians, the NRA has kept the amendment and related riders in place.
    — Will Van Sant, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • There is an allied reason why that type of adornment works.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The code was never broken and the Code Talkers were credited with helping the allied forces win the war.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Germany is one of the world’s largest arms exporters and ships weapons to non-allied countries such as Egypt or Pakistan.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The United States has banned the import or sale of Huawei’s telecom-network gear and has urged allied nations not to use it.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Even with the 33 seats that the far-right Vox got and the one seat going to an allied party, the PP was still seven seats short of a majority.
    — Joseph Wilson and Ciarán Giles, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2023
  • Thus far, support for Ukraine has proved durable among allied nations.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Yet the question of a gas embargo is part of a wider long-term challenge to the allied pressure campaign against Mr. Putin.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Code Talkers were credited with helping the allied forces win the war and have been seen as heroes ever since.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The 3,000 will bolster allied forces in Germany, Poland and Romania.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Otto urged Rhaenyra to pick someone from an allied house, but Criston comes from a more humble background as the son of a steward.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The Allied invasion of Sicily was now only three weeks away.
    — Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Ukrainian president also compared the current war to the allied efforts to defeat the Nazis.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • On the 20th anniversary of the allied invasion of Iraq that marked the start of the eight-year conflict, there are still some deep reflections and questions about the toll of the battles.
    — ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Later, the White House relents to pressure and agrees to allow allied nations to give Ukraine their F-16 fighter jets.
    — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • The company’s fortunes are closely allied to the trend of the mainland Chinese box office.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The ships also participated in training with allied navies, such as those of Great Britain and Japan.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2022
  • That comes on top of $3.8 million Bills gave to the fund earlier this year — and the $1.6 million that his wife, Sonja Smith, donated to Democrats or allied groups.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But tensions that often surfaced among members of the Allied forces were real.
    — USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The briefing marked a significant shift in the allied view, officials said.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The battle zone was the scene of some of the worst fighting between allied forces composed of French and British Commonwealth troops against a force built around German soldiers.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • In addition to the price cap, the allied nations have hit Russia with thousands of sanctions throughout the war, which enters its third year next month.
    — Fatima Hussein, Fortune Europe, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Russian media rarely publish stories about the health of the leaders of Russia or its allied neighbors.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 15 May 2023
  • The league did bar players from taking the Stanley Cup to Russia or closely allied Belarus this summer.
    — Stephen Whyno, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Reuters has chronicled the violence there, which was spearheaded by the RSF and its allied militias.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The need to supply Ukraine with billions of dollars' worth of military aid has sometimes strained allied countries.
    — Karl Ritter, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The allied military has responded to the North Korean tests by conducting a slate of rocket tests of their own.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 9 Oct. 2022
  • That means selling only to the U.S., Canada, or other like-minded allied countries.
    — Leigh R. Curyer, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • Hezbollah is linked to Hamas through Iran’s regional network of allied militias.
    — Armani Syed, TIME, 19 Oct. 2023

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