Get to know Truce better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like armistice or peace.
Truce meaning
- A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
- An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
Using Truce
- The main meaning on this page is: A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties. | An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
- Useful related words include: armistice, cease-fire, peace.
- In the example corpus, truce often appears in combinations such as: the truce, truce in, truce with.
Context around Truce
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Truce
- In this selection, "truce" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, olympic, temporary, persistent, violations, aljazeera and amid stand out and add context to how "truce" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a humanitarian truce in the and a new truce and which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "truce" sits close to words such as amit, bandits and brunch, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with truce
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Doesn't it take both sides to have a truce? (10 words)
During the truce, Israel freed 240 Palestinians from its prisons. (10 words)
Egypt and Qatar acted as mediators on Saturday to maintain the truce. (12 words)
Although the concept of an Olympic Truce or Ekecheiria is thought to date back to the Olympic Games of antiquity, it was not until 1993 that a formal "Olympic Truce" was adopted by the UN at the request of the IOC. (41 words)
A truce between Israel and the militant Islamic Jihad group officially came into effect on Saturday night, with an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement meant to end the worst episode of cross-border fire since a 10-day war in 2021. (40 words)
A source briefed on the negotiations said envoys were intensively discussing which of the hostages still held by Palestinian Islamist militants in Gaza could be freed in a new truce and which Palestinian prisoners Israel might release in return. (39 words)
Doesn't it take both sides to have a truce? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
Although the concept of an Olympic Truce or Ekecheiria is thought to date back to the Olympic Games of antiquity, it was not until 1993 that a formal "Olympic Truce" was adopted by the UN at the request of the IOC.
In a joint statement on Sunday, the United States and Saudi Arabia signaled impatience with persistent truce violations and called out Sudan’s military and the RSF for specific breaches of a week-long truce, Aljazeera reported.
Senior Somali government officials, however, said Abiy's had been working behind the scenes to broker a truce amid pressure from key international players like the United States and the United Kingdom for a truce.
After this, Eutychius reached an uneasy truce with Gregory, and the pope in return forged a temporary truce between the Lombards and the Byzantines.
The truce was designed to last 28 days and an arms embargo was declared with the intention that neither side would make any gains from the truce.
After DJ Akademiks claims that the 'Backdoor' rapper and the 'Bandit' rhymer have called a truce, The Voice appears to confirm the news as he likes a tweet about it.
A humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip will start on Friday at 07:00 (05:00 GMT), Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said.
And they did so with the Christmas Truce of 1914 as a model.
A number of resolutions calling for a ceasefire or some form of truce have been raised in the UN security council, but on each occasion they have been vetoed by one or more of the permanent members.
A one-week truce that Qatar helped mediate, with support from Egypt and Washington, ended on December 1. It saw 80 Israeli hostages released from Gaza captivity in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
Around 1,500 officers will be deployed for the protest, which comes amid a temporary truce in the conflict and the release of in exchange for 39 Palestinians held by Israel.
Asked about the truce proposal, U.S. President Joe Biden said he thought Putin was "trying to find some oxygen".
A source briefed on the negotiations said envoys were intensively discussing which of the hostages still held by Palestinian Islamist militants in Gaza could be freed in a new truce and which Palestinian prisoners Israel might release in return.
As the exchanges continued and optimism rose, the truce was extended by two days to keep the exchanges going.
A truce between Israel and the militant Islamic Jihad group officially came into effect on Saturday night, with an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement meant to end the worst episode of cross-border fire since a 10-day war in 2021.
By the end of the episode, husband and wife have negotiated a truce.
Doesn't it take both sides to have a truce?
During the truce, Israel freed 240 Palestinians from its prisons.
Egypt and Qatar acted as mediators on Saturday to maintain the truce.
Egypt said on Saturday that it had received positive signals from all parties over a possible extension of the Gaza truce for one or two days.
Common combinations with truce
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the truce 30×
- truce in 20×
- truce with 13×
- truce between 12×
- truce was 10×
- truce and 10×
- for truce 8×
- humanitarian truce 8×
- of truce 7×
- truce that 7×