Example sentences for: clashed

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

  • Both the NYT and WP fronts cover Castro's warm reception in Granada, where in 1983, U.S. troops clashed with Cuban soldiers and construction workers.

  • In their third meeting in a month, they clashed over health care and gun control and agreed on support for gays in the military . But most pundits said personality and leadership --not policy issues--were the true points of contention: Gore deemed Bradley "too intellectually removed" to deal with real-world problems; Bradley charged that Gore was not removed enough from the "Washington bunker" to generate creative solutions.

  • It’s bucolic today, but here the colonists clashed again with the British and killed 200 Redcoats.

  • What's more, the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry--with whom Galdikas has clashed over logging policies--has accused the anthropologist of housing "a very large number of illegal orangutans ...

  • To embrace the enlarged territory, the Federation took on the new name of Malaysia in September 1963, but Singapore soon clashed with Kuala Lumpur over Malay privileges that Singapore, with its multiracial policies, sought to dismantle.


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