Example sentences for: waged

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

  • Lawsuits are being waged to stop an Alabama judge from displaying the Ten Commandments and to prevent a school district from allowing prayer before class and games.

  • Pipes, in a book called Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From , pinpoints the Crusades of the 11 th century--the wars waged by Europe's Christians on the Muslims who controlled Palestine--as its first mass outbreak.

  • The seminal event was the Korean War, which President Harry Truman waged with U.N. approval and virtual silence from Congress.

  • The development of Chicano Muralismo grew out of the political context of the Chicano civil rights movement, a nationalistic political struggle waged by Chicanos during the 1960s.

  • The first major rebellion occurred in 1770 when the Russians, hoping to distract the Turks while they waged their own attacks on the Ottoman Empire elsewhere, promised support to Dhaskaloyiánnis, a wealthy shipowner.


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