How to Use war in a Sentence

war

1 of 2 noun
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  • A war broke out when the colonists demanded their independence.
  • They fought a war over the disputed territory.
  • We need to resolve our conflicts without resorting to war.
  • People behave differently during a time of war.
  • The taking of American hostages was seen as an act of war by the United States.
  • That’s the question facing U.S. schools in the throes of the Israel-Hamas war.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The troop deaths could have a greater impact for Ukraine in a war that is far from over.
    — Helene Cooper, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
    — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Daniel Ortega and his wife have waged war against the church.
    — David Curry, National Review, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The war in Ukraine has lasted for 18 months, with no signs of stopping.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Ahmed saved John’s live during the war, so John sets out on a mission to do the same.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But there has been no significant change in the front lines in the war for the past nine months.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • She was born on the first day of the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s fifth war since it was founded in 1948.
    — Galit Atlas, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Israel has said a key goal of the war is to crush Hamas, a militant group that has ruled Gaza for 16 years.
    — CBS News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Follow the latest news and read more on what’s behind the Israel-Hamas war.
    — Emily M. Eng, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Headlines around the world seized on the idea that the war had essentially ended.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But that conflict, like the cave wars, wasn’t just about turbulence for its own sake.
    — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2023
  • The United States has given Ukraine more than $100 billion in aid during the war.
    — Eve Sampson, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • That’s far below the 500 trucks that entered through the Rafah crossing alone before the war started.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • After the war, Lilly sued to reclaim the painting, but it was thought to have been lost in bombings.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Before the end of the war, there were roughly 400 Navajo code talkers, and Gorman was one of them.
    — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Both expressed a desire to see a lasting peace in the war between Israel and Hamas.
    — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Tatarsky had traveled to the front lines of Russia's war in Ukraine multiple times.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • All war is torture and bombing and killing and raping and burning.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In the early weeks of the war, Ukrainians found salve in dark absurdist humor.
    — Nicola Fegg, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Civilians had nothing to do with this war, killed 17 people.
    — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • If confirmed, that would be the Russian military’s first Su-27 loss in the current, wider war.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • And in recent months, YC has found itself in the crossfire of a war between tech and progressives.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The aim is to help provide some relief for those dealing with the deadly consequences of war.
    — WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • World & Nation The Ukraine war’s most vicious fight is happening in Bakhmut.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
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war

2 of 2 verb
  • The structure of play is as hodge-podge as the game’s warring factions.
    — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The country split in 2014 between warring factions in the east and west.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And for all the laughs and love, and for going to war together on all the bad s—, always.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2019
  • There are countless warring schools of thought on what and how to feed babies.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
  • When the pair elope, the warring families must work together to find the young Smed and Smoo.
    — William Earl, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • So the two sides will war over a lot of issues, but war itself probably won’t top the list.
    — James Jay Carafano, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Matamoros is home to warring factions of the Gulf drug cartel.
    — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Given the state of the warring globe these days, that’s never seemed more elusive and more needed.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Ukraine and its allies largely dismissed the plan, as the warring sides look no closer to a cease-fire.
    — Jamey Keaten, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
  • The largest contiguous land empire the world had ever known emerged from a group of warring tribes.
    — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Drescher was first elected in 2021, and has worked to unify the warring factions within the union.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The cease-fire between the warring sides in Yemen was announced before the vote, a result of the first direct talks between the sides in two years.
    — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • His view that the warring sides should settle for a truce has angered many in Ukraine, but has been welcomed by the Kremlin.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Extra police and troops were sent in after warring drug gangs increased killings in the state in 2017.
    — Mark Stevenson, The Seattle Times, 23 July 2018
  • The warring generals have reportedly not met face-to-face since the start of the conflict in April.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In this case, there were no warring factions, Evers says.
    — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The proposal flew in the face of the grim realities on the ground and the depth of enmity between the warring factions.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, on the ground, there are signs that the warring sides have used the relative lull in the fighting to bolster their positions.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
  • For years, the country has been divided between two warring rivals, a government in the east and one in the west.
    — Sarah Dadouch, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But splitting the country into tiny warring groups is useful to them.
    — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Sanctions, once a wartime action, were seen as a tool that could be used as a threat and thus a prophylactic to war itself.
    — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Many of the victims have been targeted, either as part of the warring gangs or for other reasons.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The region was settled in the 1860s by Spanish settlers who warred with the area's original stewards, the Mescalero Apache, who still live nearby.
    — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • For the past decade, the group has lived away from Mali due to ongoing violence between the warring northern and southern factions in the country.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Mediterranean Sea The North African nation has been mired in violence between warring factions for more than a decade.
    — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Although fans around the world have long dreaded the prospect of sending the boys off to war their mandatory duties, the news isn’t exactly surprising.
    — Vulture, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The positive news for local Democrats is that by the end of the day Friday, a tentative deal was taking shape between the two warring sides in this legal fight.
    — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • But Trump, and his racist tweets about the four women and attempts to paint them as the face of the Democratic Party, have actually worked to unite the warring factions of the party against Trump.
    — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
  • Most women who turn to violence are not running around with lathis or warring with ISIS.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • A long time ago, an historian named Ctesias wrote the first chronicled history of the Greeks and the warring countries.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023

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