Example sentences for: internecine

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

  • in the dual role of the overweening 17 th century boy king Louis of France and his twin brother, Philippe, who was first spirited away at birth by a father fearful of internecine struggles and subsequently locked in the bowels of the Bastille, his features concealed by the eponymous iron mask.

  • For over a year, the only real news coming out of the Republican caucus has been gossip about internecine warfare, tales about coups and countercoups, ambition, rebellion, and retribution.

  • hard upon forging their unexpected alliance amid the quadrennial panoply of the Grand Old Party's nominating convention, our protagonists, acting in unavoidable response to the exigencies of a contest dominated by the incumbent's strategy and tactics, set out for the heartland in a manner similar to his, where, beneath storm-riven skies suggestive of incunabular Turners, the desperate reality of their task began to reveal itself, rising like a black basalt orogeny from the soft soils of internecine enthusiasm.

  • The most brutal internecine spats took place in New York City in the 1930s.

  • Euripides might feel at home editing the tabloids this month, what with murder-suicide (Phil Hartman and his wife, Brynn), internecine family warfare (the Sinatras), incarceration for wife beating (Tommy Lee), and bizarre behavior (Charlie Sheen and Farrah Fawcett).


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