Example sentences for: truce

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

  • 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, ...

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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