Example sentences for: strife

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

  • But Arab opposition to new Jewish immigration and construction in Palestine led to increasing strife; by 1946, Jerusalem was an armed camp.

  • The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.

  • Thus began 80 years of civil strife in Amsterdam and the region of Holland.

  • Without Indonesian subsidies East Timor would be at the mercy of the international aid community and susceptible to civil strife.

  • 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."


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