How to Use war in a Sentence

war

1 of 2 noun
  • 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.
  • This is how the war will start.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Trump no longer wants the war to end now.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
  • What comes next on the path to end the war?
    — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Now, the Iran war is two months old.
    — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Hence, the next wars will be fought across physics and code.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • More than that was spent in just the first week of the war.
    — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Because as soon as this war is over.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • Grossi could not appear to take sides in the war.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Let’s talk about the overall cost of this war.
    — NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
  • But life as a culture war refugee comes at a price.
    — Christian Orozco, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Some wishes called for world peace or the end to war.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • Well, tell me, how much is this war going to cost?
    — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • This would be the third ceasefire since the start of the war.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • To live with joy and hope has become a weapon against war.
    — Carol Guzy, NPR, 22 Feb. 2026
  • If there had been no ceasefire, the war would have been over by now.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Then the war in Gaza shredded them.
    — Steve Peoples, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Some of the backlash on the right over the Iran war.
    — ABC News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The global war on terror was near its peak.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But the war on drugs is not the key solution.
    — Sterling Elliott, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The pope has also called for an end to the war in Gaza.
    — Jordana Miller, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • His rationale for the war has changed all the time.
    — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Americans would have to fight in some of these wars.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But the war isn't the only factor is the price shift.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace!
    — Colleen Barry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026

war

2 of 2 verb
  • Why the hell doesn’t war ever change?
    — Jack King, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The warring sides have yet to agree on next steps.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 14 Dec. 2025
  • And what kind of earth will these warring empires have made of it?
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But to be warred upon by some of his own fans is another.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The structure of play is as hodge-podge as the game’s warring factions.
    — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Yet this didn’t leave the warring empires on equal footing.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The warring factions risk splitting the sport in two.
    — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • And what are your thoughts about that and these comparisons and these forever wars?
    — ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Its members would never war with one another.
    — Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The largest contiguous land empire the world had ever known emerged from a group of warring tribes.
    — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Matamoros is home to warring factions of the Gulf drug cartel.
    — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But splitting the country into tiny warring groups is useful to them.
    — Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
  • 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 two warring sides are key allies of Washington.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The two warring sides are key allies of Washington.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026
  • On such an exchange were built colonies and empires, economies and fortunes, with slavery and war the byproducts.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • This is not the first time warring nations have turned to Colombia for manpower.
    — Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The Central cluster is the larger of the two warring factions.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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 country split in 2014 between warring factions in the east and west.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This has split investors large and small into warring camps—both sides digging in with quasi-religious fervor.
    — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Expect to deal with warring factions, difficult moral quandaries, and hard choices over what gear to wear.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 26 Dec. 2018
  • The region is one of the most violent in Colombia, and lack of state presence is filled by warring armed groups.
    — Megan Janetsky, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • When the pair elope, the warring families must work together to find the young Smed and Smoo.
    — William Earl, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Lane offers little sense of the warring pride and resentment that Willy feels having failed his own idea of what a man should be.
    — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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

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