Example sentences for: truce

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

  • The Wall Street Journal front reports that Russian troops have entered Chechnya for the first time since a 1996 truce, and that skirmishes with Chechen troops ensued.

  • The truce was shattered when Bush ran an ad that assailed McCain's proposed tax plan.

  • A truce was declared, and the Treaty of Northampton was negotiated at Edinburgh in 1328.

  • The West prevailed because nuclear weapons imposed a brittle truce, shifting the conflict to the economic rivalry in which the West's greater resources and adaptability could produce both guns and butter, both family cars and aircraft carriers.

  • Skinch is used in childhood games to call a truce, usually with crossed fingers.


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