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.

  • 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.

  • Michael Gordon ( Washington Week in Review ) calls Kofi Annan's deal with Saddam Hussein--Issue 2--more a "truce than a final settlement."

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

  • 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.


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