Example sentences for: warlords

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

  • The fighting brought none of the usual spoils of war that provincial warlords and samurai had come to expect as payment.

  • In another article, "The Warlords of Democracy," by Paul Goble, you offer a link to a Ronald Reagan speech, at the end of which is a command to "go back."

  • The graves of hundreds of thousands from all walks of life now occupy the site, with the remains of emperors, warlords, warriors, samurai, and poets all jostling for space.

  • They will be familiar from intervention disputes dating back at least to Vietnam, but they are especially useful for the summer-squall-style military actions of today, in which we all agree to be frenzied about the occupation of Kuwait or a drug-smuggling dictator in Panama or warlords in Somalia or genocide in Bosnia on the strict understanding that we will be allowed to forget all about these matters and places in six months, max.

  • Taliban leaders declared a holy war against the various warlords who carved up Afghanistan, and preached the role of strict Islamic rules as a unifying force.


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