Alliance is an English word with synonyms like confederation or coalition. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Alliance meaning
- The state of being allied.
- The act of allying or uniting.
- A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
Synonyms of Alliance
Alliance vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Alliance
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of being allied. | The act of allying or uniting. | A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
- Useful related words include: confederation, coalition, pact, treaty.
- Possible Dutch translations are: alliantie.
- In the example corpus, alliance often appears in combinations such as: the alliance, an alliance, alliance with.
Context around Alliance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alliance
- In this selection, "alliance" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, austerity, electoral, security, won, people and consisting stand out and add context to how "alliance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about the alliance of the, action alliance alliance for democracy, grand alliance, military alliance and launch alliance. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alliance" sits close to words such as definitely, fox and cell, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alliance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It would take a complete reversal of the present NKorea-China-Russia alliance to break the US-JPN-SK alliance. (20 words)
People's Alliance won 49.30 percent of the votes and Nation's Alliance won 35.22 percent of them, according to TRT. (23 words)
Alliance High School graduate Kip Van Tilburg is back in Alliance visiting family and friends while on leave from the United States Army. (23 words)
Izzy and Felicia, two-thirds of the strongest alliance in the house, are up for eviction and it is glaringly obvious that Head of Household Cameron will put the other third of the alliance, Cirie, up as a replacement nom should one of his noms be vetoed. (47 words)
Many veterans of the foreign policy circuit describe what's about to unfold on Tuesday and Wednesday as a "pivotal" moment for the alliance — maybe the most important since the end of the Cold War, or even in the alliance's nearly eight-decade history. (45 words)
Fringe Fort Myers is June 1. The festival features free shows in the Alliance for the Arts parking lot and outdoor stage plus 9 ticketed acts in the Off Broadway Palm, the Foulds Theatre and the Alliance’s Classroom Theatre. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Anti-Austerity Alliance–People Before Profit electoral alliance, consisting of the Anti-Austerity Alliance and People Before Profit Alliance currently occupy the 5th largest grouping within Dáil Éireann.
Among the political parties that signed the agreement are Action Alliance, Alliance for Democracy, Africa Democratic Party, Action Democratic Party, All Grand Alliance Party, Action Peoples Party and Advanced Congress of Democrats.
Applauding the work of Alliance representative Matt Beaumont, Eddie said: “A special mention should be made to Matt Beaumont, who worked tirelessly for the people of Fermanagh over the past number of years as Alliance’s representative here.
Friday morning in the Performing Arts Center Commons, Alliance Public Schools staff enjoyed an end-of-year appreciation breakfast, hosted in part by the Alliance Chamber of Commerce Education Committee.
Fringe Fort Myers is June 1. The festival features free shows in the Alliance for the Arts parking lot and outdoor stage plus 9 ticketed acts in the Off Broadway Palm, the Foulds Theatre and the Alliance’s Classroom Theatre.
Izzy and Felicia, two-thirds of the strongest alliance in the house, are up for eviction and it is glaringly obvious that Head of Household Cameron will put the other third of the alliance, Cirie, up as a replacement nom should one of his noms be vetoed.
Many veterans of the foreign policy circuit describe what's about to unfold on Tuesday and Wednesday as a "pivotal" moment for the alliance — maybe the most important since the end of the Cold War, or even in the alliance's nearly eight-decade history.
People's Alliance won 49.30 percent of the votes and Nation's Alliance won 35.22 percent of them, according to TRT.
Stockholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the proposal to lease and operate a bean and wheat elevator in Alliance at the forty-first annual meeting of the Alliance Consumers Co-op.
When asked about the BJP-JD (S) alliance in Karnataka, he maintained that he wouldn’t speak about the alliance of the two parties.
After Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif reportedly backed the Congress-NC alliance’s stand on Article 370, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Thursday demanded clarification from Congress, asking if the “alliance is forged by Pakistan”.
Alliance High School graduate Kip Van Tilburg is back in Alliance visiting family and friends while on leave from the United States Army.
Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance, Ecuador: An alliance of 30 indigenous nations that collectively stand together to protect 86 million acres of critical Amazon rainforest – an area the size of Germany – and advocate for a regenerative bioeconomy.
An alliance between People Before Profit and Solidarity, it is a left-wing electoral alliance and advocates for social justice, wealth redistribution, and workers' rights.
As representative of the Alliance Development Company, Sallows said he had made tentative plans for Fred Morgan of Long Beach, Calif., to put down a well on land the company has leased southwest of Alliance.
Instead of a military security alliance in the Indo-Pacific, we should be looking to build a new—and global—economic security alliance.
In this photo provided by United Launch Alliance, the Astrobotic Peregrine lunar lander is prepared for encapsulation in a payload fairing for launch atop a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket in Cape Canaveral, Fla., in December 2023.
It would take a complete reversal of the present NKorea-China-Russia alliance to break the US-JPN-SK alliance.
Since the alliance runs so deep, it’s started to make some of the cast who believed they were tight with the alliance that they don’t rank that high in the order of things.
The game’s next 7 points then belonged to the hosts as the Alliance lead slipped to 40 to 35. Scores by Timbers and Meyring kept Alliance out in front in the final stages of the quarter.
Phrases with alliance
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with alliance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the alliance 57×
- an alliance 31×
- alliance with 25×
- alliance of 15×
- alliance in 12×
- grand alliance 10×
- alliance for 9×
- of alliance 9×
- this alliance 8×
- military alliance 8×