How to Use alliance in a Sentence

alliance

noun
  • There is disagreement within the alliance about how to deal with this problem.
  • There has been a pattern of shifting alliances in the political world.
  • We need to form a closer alliance between government and industry.
  • The article condemns what some say is an unholy alliance between government and media.
  • That's where this alliance comes in.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Who's kind of the boss who has the side alliance.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Our alliances have been strained.
    — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Stay tuned as the alliance weighs its next steps.
    — Amanda Castro shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • As this new deal shows, such alliances are made to evolve.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
  • That alliance is what Kaiser wants to break up.
    — Pat Maio, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Soto was left in the dark about that alliance.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes two of the states form an alliance against the third.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
  • As in all tragedies of chivalry, the alliance will split.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the state funding comes from alliance grants to the city.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But experts warn the alliance’s plans don’t stack up.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
  • People talk about all these pregame alliances.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
  • At the end of the day, my own alliance turned on me and voted me out.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 July 2021
  • Since then, the alliances forged in tragedy have been fractured.
    — Susan Page, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Their old allies hate them, and their new alliance doesn’t trust them.
    — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • His alliance with Moore was years in the making.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 11 May 2026
  • The alliance has all the hallmarks of a Trumpian scheme.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
  • The two groups are in an alliance against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
    — SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • What does that mean for your friendship and alliance with Theo?
    — EW.com, 30 July 2025
  • So much for Josh's promise, and so much for that vet alliance.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • It is not yet known which other countries are part of the alliance.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And then there’s the unholy alliance of toilet seats and food.
    — Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024
  • There's way too much emphasis put on pregame alliances and all that.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The glaciers are melting and old alliances are falling apart.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Brook had formed an alliance with the three other younger, stronger members.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
  • His criticisms of the alliance are not new.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2026

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