Example sentences for: strife

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

  • The only way widespread civil strife can be avoided is "by the conservative forces realizing that time is not on their side and--should they decide to continue the struggle through to its bitter end--they would be leading Iran to catastrophe."

  • Dialect differences can cause strife and disharmony, as can be witnessed in the contemporary dispute over the decision by a California school district to use Ebonics as a vehicle to teach Standard English.

  • His policy succeeded for a time, but following his abdication in a.d. 305, the empire continued to weaken, harassed by invaders and troubled by internal strife.

  • In a May 1943 "personal and most secret" memo to Churchill, Roosevelt called de Gaulle's attitude "well-nigh intolerable" and accused him of stirring up vicious propaganda in North Africa and attempting to cause strife between the Arabs and the Jews in Algiers.

  • Where his peers wrote frenzied accounts of Vietnam and racial strife, he gravitated toward tamer subjects--the young Bill Bradley, for example, and canoes.


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