How to Use war of independence in a Sentence

war of independence

noun phrase
  • Eventually, the people living in the colonies seek their autonomy and launch a war of independence against the people on Earth.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His mother and father fled during the country’s war of independence with Ethiopia, which started in 1962.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • His mother and father fled during the country’s war of independence with Ethiopia, which started in 1962.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Front Royal, Virginia — King Charles III came to the United States to mark Britain’s loss in the war of independence.
    — Max Foster, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
  • The displacement of so many Jews from their ancient home becomes a kind of tit for tat—a balancing act of victimhood against the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled during Israel’s war of independence.
    — Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • The 2024 protests began after the government reinstated a policy that reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans from the country’s war of independence.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Another way of contextualizing the scale of the bloodletting is the war in Gaza, the bloodiest round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian terrorists since the latter’s war of independence in 1948.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The same year saw the formation of New Spain’s High Court, or Audiencia, and other royal and religious institutions that would play a role in the government of Mexico until the war of independence in 1810.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2025
  • That list also includes a display at the National Museum of the American Latino that White House officials felt inaccurately portrays the Texas revolution as a defense of slavery, not a war of independence from Mexico.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Bouchareb first came across the story of the tests while researching Days of Glory, about the mistreatment of Northern African men who enlisted in the French army, and Outside the Law, following the trajectories of three Algerian brothers in France against the backdrop of the war of independence.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2025

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