How to Use cold war in a Sentence

cold war

noun
  • Call it the latest phase in what could be a cyber-era cold war.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Any thought of winning a new cold war has to start from this dismal fact.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a trade war on with China, which some think is a new kind of cold war.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 6 June 2019
  • Since that gathering in March, what had been a cold war has gone hot.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the girls have cold wars that last for episodes—sometimes even seasons.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 19 May 2020
  • Sleep on opposite sides of the bed with your backs to each other in a queen-size cold war?
    — Karley Sciortino, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2019
  • The new cold war with China doesn’t need to be as frightening.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Since that weekend, Brooklyn has been in a cold war with his parents.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Just a few years earlier, the two countries ended a decades-long cold war.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Still, the icy sentiment blowing through these Olympics is not quite a cold war.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • This cold war—should the world indeed succumb to it—will be different from the first one.
    — Michael Doyle, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • But make no mistake, this cold war of words has been simmering in the background for over a decade.
    — Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
  • Per a source, that cold war continued through the offseason.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • That Dongfeng was born in Shiyan is because of cold war angst, at least in local lore.
    — Lavender Au, The New York Review of Books, 4 Feb. 2020
  • This all comes, by the way, at a time when Apple has stepped up its cold war against Facebook.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 18 Aug. 2021
  • On these muddy fields in England’s rural heartland, a kind of cold war rages.
    — Euan Ward, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Disney and Universal have been in a cold war for tourist cash since the ’90s.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 July 2024
  • India has a lot to lose if Russia ignites a new cold war in Europe.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Xi Jinping is angling to win a cold war with the United States.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • If there is a new cold war, then the West may also be entering a new era of containment.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Mrs Ri is not the only cold war relic that could be put back into service as a result of the test.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • As the Arab cold war spreads, Iran and other foes are gaining advantage.
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • Let that be proof that the long cold war between PC gamers and tabletop gamers is finally over.
    — Luke Winkie, Wired, 1 June 2021
  • But the fallout lasted years, beginning Murphy's cold war with the show.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Clearly, Otto is ready for this cold war to heat up, though that's easy to say now that his side has the world's biggest dragon.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The Knicks and Bulls have spent the better part of the past decade locked in a cold war to see who can alienate more lifelong fans.
    — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 13 July 2018
  • Second, a worry is that if countries try to keep their AI close to the vest, this will in turn start a new kind of cold war.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Many countries have been caught between the United States and China in their tech cold war.
    — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The new cold war with China could be a good thing, Doyle McManus wrote in his column.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021

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