Example sentences for: strife

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

  • 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.

  • Against a murky background of violence, strikes, and regional strife, the king accepted the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1923.

  • He promised a modern state for his people, but as the situation became volatile, civil strife broke out in Turkish cities, and those considered Greek were victims of threats and violence.

  • Madeleine Albright's upcoming African tour prompts a WP primer on strife in Sierra Leone, where Albright will stop Monday.


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