How to Use internecine in a Sentence

internecine

adjective
  • More to the point, this is no time for internecine battles among Democrats.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 22 July 2024
  • Others who had the capacity to lead couldn't make the time, or were turned off by internecine squabbling.
    — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 18 Oct. 2017
  • These are the types of internecine battles that could trip up Democrats’ march to the majority.
    — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
  • But the strike managed to highlight both sides’ persistent internecine warfare, as well.
    — Vulture, 13 Nov. 2023
  • And there are signs that other militias are getting over internecine conflicts and aligning against the junta.
    — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Ms Nahles, a veteran of party intrigue, tried to soldier on in the face of internecine plots.
    — The Economist, 8 June 2019
  • And the internecine battle among macronutrients is only heating up.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 20 July 2019
  • After all the internecine squabbles, the true threat had revealed itself, just as in Game of Thrones.
    — Rowland Manthorpe, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2017
  • When our castaways were cruising on the hotel junk rig in the season premiere, internecine feuding felt inevitable.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2025
  • To this day, Libya remains trapped in a Hobbesian hell of internecine warfare and lawlessness.
    — Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But that isn’t the only development in the internecine fight for control of the Pac-12.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Uber conducted the leadership search as it was shaken by internecine fighting on the company’s board.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Lately, historians have come around to the story’s portrait of the conflict as marked by internecine mayhem.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • The decisions are there for the making up and down the ballot as each party undergoes an internecine struggle between its left and right wings.
    — Peggy Fikac, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • So the internecine Camellia sinensis battle begins.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Most creators also admitted to some anxiety linked to the left’s predilection for internecine conflict.
    — Shaan Amin, The New Republic, 2 July 2019
  • For the first time, Cox and Pope both saw that the internecine battle appeared coordinated.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024
  • During that time, her three suggestions to read a passage aloud had all died, and her son and grandson became embroiled in an internecine war about her care and fortune.
    — Mark Peikert, Town & Country, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In any event, this is the kind of thing that, in the past, has ignited bloody internecine wars that end up killing lots and lots of people before a new equilibrium is achieved.
    — Eduardo Porter, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • The politicization of the IC comes with risks beyond just losing staff and fostering internecine battles.
    — Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
  • To Egypt’s west is Libya’s never-ending conflict, and to its south, Sudan’s internecine bloodshed.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But in El Akkad’s dystopian vision, those differences have led, once again, to secession and internecine warfare.
    — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2017
  • But in El Akkad's dystopian vision, those differences have led, once again, to secession and internecine warfare.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
  • During the last year, internecine political battles over the road have left the country’s citizens confused and clamoring to be heard.
    — National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The enemy, in this case, are the members of a single internecine family, vis-à-vis one another and their own sorry, self-defeating souls.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2018
  • That intensifies the internecine struggle among Republicans over what to include in the package and how to contain the cost.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Tatarsky’s killing added to a growing list of opaque, internecine battles on the sidelines of the war in Ukraine, for which neither side has claimed responsibility.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Militant leaders have usually died as a result of internecine rivalry among competing groups or factions.
    — ABC News, 16 May 2026
  • The funds who spurned their peers generated returns of around 90%, by one measure, demonstrating the payoff from waging such internecine battles.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • That set the stage for an internecine battle between the Archdiocese, which claimed ownership on all assets belonging to the Sisters.
    — Peter Kiefer, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2017

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