War means: Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always invol... Related words include warfare or struggle. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use War in practice.

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War meaning

  1. Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
  2. A particular conflict of this kind.
  3. Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.

Synonyms of War

warfare struggle crusade cause campaign battle conflict peace antagonism enmity hostility state of war action military action drive

War in Dutch

Example sentences (20)

Many of the most famous bards wrote numerous songs about war, particularly The Great Patriotic War (World War II).

There are more hot war zones and potential war zones around the globe than at any time since the end of the Cold War.

When the war is over, I'll start a much longer and bigger war of my own: the war I’m going to fight against them.

Retrospectively, it was clear that the war in Spain was as much a precursor of the Second World War as a Spanish civil war.

Milley can swiftly shift from talking about World War II to the Battle of Bunker Hill to the Korean War to the Afghanistan War.

Whether it is an ethnic war, a religious war or both I do not know but his secret desire is to push us to the brink of that war.

But the draft did not stop politicians from supporting unnecessary wars like World War One, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

We are already in the midst of a global cyber war, and we just turned a proxy war into an actual war.

This is Jud's war, he wants to go to war at the beginning of the film, and ultimately he's going to stay and fight a war in Ludlow.

Some focus on specific events, like World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

Nuremberg war crimes trials Following the war, Dönitz was held as a prisoner of war by the Allies.

War is an example since most property and risks are not insured against war, so the loss attributed by war is retained by the insured.

After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour.

War has tragically, despite the threat of an enlarged war and nuclear war, become popularized.

But the journey from the Spanish-American War to World War I to World War II started out West.

The film includes footage of the war, from both sides, as well as anti-war protests in New York and Paris and other anti-war activities.

The Krags were originally used in the Spanish-American War and World War I, and the Garands were used in World War II and the Korean War.

The war on drugs is a war against far more virulent an enemy than the war on Coronavirus, that has been underway for almost eighty years.

After the war, she summarized her war time experiences in a book Radiology in War (1919).

There were attendees from numerous past military conflicts ranging from the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war.

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Common combinations with war

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "war" in a sentence?
An example: "Many of the most famous bards wrote numerous songs about war, particularly The Great Patriotic War (World War II)." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "war" from real English texts.
What does "war" mean?
War means: Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
What are synonyms of "war"?
Common synonyms of "war" include: warfare, struggle, crusade, cause, campaign, battle, conflict, peace. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "war" in Dutch?
"war" translates to Dutch as: oorlog, krijg.
How many example sentences with "war" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "war", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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