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.

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

  • In the New York Times Book Review , Katha Pollitt calls for a truce in the battle between partisans of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: "What if, as in many bad marriages, both partners were driven to the extremes of their personalities, ...

  • Unz writes that public schools are vital to social cohesion and proposes an ideological truce on the issue: If the left will acknowledge that its efforts to reform public schools have failed, the right will stop pushing "to turn our public schools over to ideological zealots or the marketing division from Nike."

  • 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.


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