Example sentences for: waged

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

  • Also, an editorial condemns Republicans for avoiding the accelerating fight against racial preferences: "It won't do for Republicans to delay the prize of colorblindness, even for a moment, by silently ignoring the battle while it's waged."

  • The real battle, however, was waged under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington, whose coalition forces expelled the French after two years of bitter fighting.

  • From 1919 to 1922 he waged war with the Greeks, who had invaded at Smyrna, and ultimately managed to defeat them and force their withdrawal from Asia Minor.

  • FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover loathed the civil rights leader, thought he was a Communist, and waged a relentless campaign of surveillance and sabotage against him.

  • The papers report that the Clinton lawyers yesterday waged an aggressive attack on the perjury and obstruction of justice charges lodged against their client.


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