Words similar to warlords

Example sentences for: warlords

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

Both the NYT and WP front stories about the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland, which broke off from Somalia five years ago to escape the daily fighting between warlords there.
If American troops, on their arrival in Somalia--their moment of greatest strength--had arrested warlords and destroyed their heaviest weapons, the United States might not have been drawn into bigger factional problems later on.
The fighting brought none of the usual spoils of war that provincial warlords and samurai had come to expect as payment.
When the famous unifiers Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa fought to end the 16th-century civil wars, Hideyoshi used Himeji as a base of operations against the recalcitrant warlords of Western Honshu.
The United States has largely stayed out of the central government's struggles with dissident warlords and it has largely avoided confronting the related problem of narcotrafficking.