Example sentences for: truce

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

  • 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.

  • 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, ...

  • The Spanish press led on the decision by the Basque terrorist organization ETA to declare an "indefinite truce" on the lines of the IRA in Ireland.

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

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


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