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Example sentences for: raged

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Much of the island was left in ruins from heavy bombing, but Crete escaped the internal strife of the civil war that raged in mainland Greece (1947–1949) and felt fewer effects of the oppressive ‘rule of the colonels’ (1967–1974) than other Greek communities.
Although the Reformation and Lutherism had an impact on Poland, the country largely avoided the devastating religious wars that raged elsewhere in Europe.
We knew that while the Cold War still raged.
At the same time, a dispute over the crown continually raged between Pedro IV, the absentee monarch who preferred to reign as Emperor of Brazil rather than return to Portugal, and his brother Miguel.
The debate between covering-a-smaller-number-of-topics-in-depth versus getting-all-the-facts-into-kid-heads has raged, is raging, and will rage as long as there are children to teach.