Example sentences for: truce

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

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

  • 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 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.

  • 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."

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


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