Example sentences for: ceasefire

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

  • "The White House should make it clear that both will be withdrawn--permanently--if the present ceasefire is broken.

  • It said that for the first time since the bombing began Blair and Foreign Secretary Robin Cook "held out the prospect of British soldiers going into Kosovo before a ceasefire has been agreed with Belgrade."

  • The UN team has also criticized the Bosnian Serbs for various violations of the ceasefire.

  • But O'Brien, who has always been opposed to making deals with Sinn Fein, noted that there was now less open emphasis in Ireland on peace than on a breakthrough for Irish nationalism, and he added that an article in the Sunday Business Post--the Dublin newspaper most sympathetic to Sinn Fein--had rather given the game away with an article that said, "[T]he IRA, which is likely to maintain its ceasefire for several months, will almost certainly resist any attempt to accede to unionist demands for actual decommissioning of weapons by early summer."

  • But the paper added: "If China is really worried about possible American gains from the Kargil crisis, it should hardly be advocating a ceasefire.


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