Example sentences for: war-torn

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

  • Unemployment among Albanians reached 85 percent, higher than in war-torn Bosnia.

  • Kazimierz built great castles and towns, codified laws, and created an entire administrative system of governance for the war-torn country.

  • Poland’s war-torn and almost incomprehensibly fractured history plays out like an epic novel — occasionally triumphant, frequently sad and tragic.

  • The first President Bush had authorized the use of U.S. military forces to ensure humanitarian relief in war-torn Somalia.

  • I end my e-mail as I began it, by asking if the author truly believes that a few chicken wings given to black preachers, a few honorable mentions and awards to a couple of black poets, or visits and speeches to commemorate historic memorials and visionaries within the black community are enough to lead blacks to rally behind a president who has allowed our community to lose whatever gains were given to us by a browbeaten Congress of the war-torn 1960s.


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