Below you will find example sentences with "iraq war". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Iraq War in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: iraq
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 30.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 0 start, 10 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "iraq war" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 30.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as after the iraq war, and the iraq war logs, iran, bush and world stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with war crimes, vietnam war and civil war, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with iraq war
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Let’s talk about the Afghan war logs and the Iraq War logs. (13 words)
Our own War College did a 2000 page assessment of the Iraq war, which I just mentioned. (17 words)
Since 2016, the Democrats have become, to revisit a phrase from the Iraq War decade, America’s war party. (19 words)
But back then Tony Blair was able to ignore the passion of the million or so anti-Iraq War protesters because he had a majority - and backing from a number of opposition MPs - that would see any decision to go to war in Iraq get through parliament. (47 words)
One of the stated casus belli for the initiation of the 2003 Iraq War was an accusation by the United States that Iraq was actively pursuing nuclear arms (though this was soon discovered not to be the case as the program had been discontinued). (44 words)
Just like when people were to focus on wounded, and dead soldiers of invading countries in the last Iraq war, but not on the lies by George Bush, and Tony Blair that started the war, and not on the Iraqi deaths. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Post-World War II Since World War II, Iraq's use of mustard gas against Iranian troops and Kurds ( Iran–Iraq War of 1980–88) has been the only large-scale use of any chemical weapons.
You and I did not support the Iraq War or publicly go out and say George W. Bush should be re-elected after the Iraq War.
But back then Tony Blair was able to ignore the passion of the million or so anti-Iraq War protesters because he had a majority - and backing from a number of opposition MPs - that would see any decision to go to war in Iraq get through parliament.
Other locations include Sharpsburg, where the bloodiest battle of the US Civil War was fought, and Halabja in Iraq, site of a chemical attack in the last days of the Iran-Iraq War.
There were attendees from numerous past military conflicts ranging from the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war.
Soleimani oversaw forces that have in recent years targeted civilians during conflicts in Syria and Iraq, but is viewed by some in Iran as a hero for his role in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
The targeting of Suleimani has created one of the most dramatic flash points since the Iraq War and could have a profound impact on the regional patchwork of allegiances, particularly in Iraq, which has sought to balance Washington and Tehran.
In March 2009, in a wind-swept sliver of Iraq, a sense of uncertainty befell the southern town of Garma, home to one of the Iraq War’s most notorious prisons.
He became known after going to Iraq and being responsible for a series of bombings, beheadings and attacks during the Iraq war.
He stated that Iraq was "a clear and present danger to the United States of America", and voted accordingly for the Iraq War Resolution in October 2002.
In a separate study published in 2005, citation a group of researchers assessed the effects reports and retractions in the media had on people’s memory regarding the search for WMD in Iraq during the 2003 Iraq War.
One of the stated casus belli for the initiation of the 2003 Iraq War was an accusation by the United States that Iraq was actively pursuing nuclear arms (though this was soon discovered not to be the case as the program had been discontinued).
Just like when people were to focus on wounded, and dead soldiers of invading countries in the last Iraq war, but not on the lies by George Bush, and Tony Blair that started the war, and not on the Iraqi deaths.
Let’s talk about the Afghan war logs and the Iraq War logs.
Since 2016, the Democrats have become, to revisit a phrase from the Iraq War decade, America’s war party.
AC-130s served in Vietnam, the Gulf War, the invasion of Panama, the Balkans conflict, the Iraq War and operations in Afghanistan.
Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 with a mixed message of attacking the legacy of the Iraq war and U.S. military adventurism, while simultaneously pledging to commit war crimes and promote imperialism as a matter of policy.
How GW Bush has not yet been indicted for war crimes is a poor reflection on the American voter and not on the forces who served there in the unjust Iraq war.
One can draw a direct line from the Iraq War to the Arab Spring to the Islamic State to the war in Syria.
Our own War College did a 2000 page assessment of the Iraq war, which I just mentioned.