Example sentences for: alliance

How can you use “alliance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the end, Johnson and Luciano form an alliance, and Schultz is bumped off.

  • However foolish their 1956 conspiracy with Israel to recapture the Suez Canal, the U.S. decision first to vote with the Soviets to condemn them at the United Nations and then to apply what Gaddis calls "crushing economic pressure" on their currencies was hardly a collegial way to run the alliance.

  • A long, fascinating survey of NATO says the narrow interests of some European members conflict with America's "broader vision" and wonders whether members' conflicting positions on Iraq, Iran, and Israel could strain the alliance in the future.

  • If, on the other hand, she didn't know, but also didn't much care, that would suggest an immoral alliance à la JFK and Jackie.

  • In 86 b.c., Roman general Sulla sacked the city in retribution for its unwise alliance with Mithridates, King of Pontus and bitter enemy of Rome.


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