How to Use war game in a Sentence

war game

noun
  • This is why war games do not predict the future but can shape it.
    — Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Some members have deployed troops there for war games over the last year.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But the media said that this would lead to war, the fire and fury and all these war games.
    — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Poland built up troops on its border with Belarus in response to the war games.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 July 2023
  • As time goes on, planners would nail down the war game scenario and other details.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • The experts involved in the war game didn’t know the client were the Emiratis.
    — Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Some members have deployed troops there for war games over the past year, however.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • North Korea sees those planning drills as provocative war games.
    — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Games can include card games, war games, shooting games, racing, and one-on-one combat.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
  • By the end of the week, the experiment snowballs into an all-out war game.
    — Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The Zapad drills are the largest Russian war games in almost four years.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
  • That’s the gist of the headlines about a recent war game from a Washington think-tank.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Nine months of Trump taking the country down a bottomless pit of discord and war games.
    — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The war game predicting the impacts of drone proliferation was held not much more than a year ago.
    — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
  • The only way for liberals to win the right's radicalizing culture-war game is not to play.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Apr. 2022
  • All of them describe the same dire scenarios, the same war games, the same cries of being woefully unprepared.
    — National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • Many recent war games in the Taiwan Strait imagined short conflicts, with the campaign ending in a few weeks.
    — Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Poland is upping defense spending and even neutral Sweden is holding war games of its own, its largest in 20 years.
    — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Later that year China staged a war game with the Tajik army, some of whose younger officers have been trained in Shanghai.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • 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
  • China’s eastern theater command says the air force, navy, and infantry will be involved in the war games, which will last until Friday.
    — Emily Feng, NPR, 23 May 2024
  • The war game took place east of Japan's southwestern island of Okinawa on Thursday.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The planetary defenders tested the concept in mid-April by playing the war game in the suburbs of Rome.
    — Nina Burleigh, Newsweek, 11 June 2015
  • 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

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