How to Use war game in a Sentence

war game

noun
  • By the end of the week, the experiment snowballs into an all-out war game.
    — Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Those jumps come as Beijing has stepped up war games around the independent island and threatened to take control.
    — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 27 Apr. 2026
  • More than 30 soldiers were affected during war games in the south of England over the weekend.
    — Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The drills this week, the sixth major round of war games since 2022, were the largest by area and the closest yet to Taiwan.
    — Yimou Lee, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The war game included a variety of training, including anti-ship drills.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • There have been many war games conducted regarding the Middle East over the last several decades.
    — Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2026
  • China has over the past five years increased its military pressure on the island, including by staging war games nearby.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The war games don’t generally start with Chinese marines clawing their way up a beachhead, Normandy style.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The war game took place east of Japan's southwestern island of Okinawa on Thursday.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Earlier this month, the navies of both countries conducted a war game and a joint patrol in the Russian Far East.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The war games served as proof of Ukraine’s potential, not only as a fighting force but also as a supplier of weapons to the rest of Europe.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The war games exercise started in April and runs across four countries, including Tunisia, Ghana and Senegal.
    — ABC News, 3 May 2026
  • The bomber deployment comes ahead of a large-scale Japanese war game scheduled to take place across the country from October 20 to 31.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Iran’s Revolutionary Guard conducted war games this week in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital trade choke point for global oil flows.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The drills, China’s most extensive war games by coverage area to date, forced Taiwan to cancel dozens of domestic flights and dispatch jets and warships to monitor.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The bilateral war game in Japan will mark the Typhon system's third deployment in the Western Pacific.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The base takes part in some of the military’s most intricate annual war games, featuring sophisticated weapons like the F-22 fighter.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Not only the drones, but these war game exercises with Belarus right on the NATO border, the Baltic States.
    — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement The future of Puerto Rico must be written not with missiles and war games, but with the aspirations of a people determined to live in peace.
    — Israel Melendez Ayala, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The president, for example, can order the Pentagon to plan for an invasion of Greenland; such an order would be little more than a direction to organize one more war game.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Its drone warfare teams are now advising NATO nations (and regularly beating them in war game simulations).
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • The war game, focused on anti-air, anti-surface, anti-submarine and flight operations, has been conducted on a biennial basis since 2004.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This was not the first time Russia has announced war games around the southern Kuril Islands, having done so in April, June, July and August, the report said.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Russian and Chinese naval vessels take part in a naval war game near Vladivostok, Russia, on September 15, 2024.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Military tensions across the Taiwan Strait remain high, with both China and Taiwan conducting war games in recent days in preparation for a potential armed conflict.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Japan, a major United States security ally, will conduct a large-scale air, land and sea war game with its Pacific allies later this month amid China's growing military threat.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • As the war games unfolded, the ambassadors to China from countries that make up the Quad grouping, formed to conduct security dialogue, convened in Beijing on Tuesday.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Over the past few years, China has conducted numerous exercises aimed at demonstrating its ability to operate around the island, including large-scale multi-service war games that involve land, air, naval, and rocket forces.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Around 30 soldiers were affected during war games involving the NATO country's new armored vehicle in the south of England over the weekend.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The exercise, scheduled to conclude on October 10, was previously a bilateral war game between the Japanese and Australian air forces.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025

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