WAR in a Sentence

Learn WAR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for WAR, such as:

1. No argument can justify a war.
2. If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.
3. They felt apprehensive about the approach of war.
4. Six years of total war had left no citizen untouched.
5. Of course there would be no war and the men all knew it.

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 Meanings and Examples of WAR
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war
 n.  state of armed conflict between different nations or different groups
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "You know there isn't going to be any war," said Scarlett, bored.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  "Why, honey, of course there's going to be a war," said Stuart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Having maneuvered them away from the boring subject of war, she went back with interest to their immediate situation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors; but the delicate question of money arose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  The mules could not be spared to go off to war, even if they had been acceptable for the Troop, which they emphatically were not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  The Troop met twice a week in Jonesboro to drill and to pray for the war to begin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  If Gerald once got on the subject of war and secession, it would be hours before he relinquished it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  Scarlett knew her mother cared nothing at all about war and politics and thought them masculine matters about which no lady could intelligently concern herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  "Maybe there won't be any war," Mrs. Tarleton temporized, her mind diverted completely from the Wilkeses' odd marriage habits.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  There had been no talk of politics or impending war all during the morning, because of Mr. Wilkes' request that the ladies should not be bored.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Of course there would be no war and the men all knew it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  "Um," said Scarlett, her sharp eyes noting that Ashley, who had not risen to take part in the war talk, was smiling up at Melanie.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  They felt apprehensive about the approach of war.
17  No argument can justify a war.
18  His uncle was disabled in the civial war; he lost his left arm.
19  In the election of a wife, as in a project of war, to err but once is to be undone for ever.
20  This latest attack has greatly heightened fears of an all-out war.
21  The strikers may have won the battle, but they lost the war.
22  If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.
23  Gathered all together in this church, we commemorate those who lost their lives in the great war.
24  Nobody can envisage the consequences of total nuclear war.
25  Six years of total war had left no citizen untouched.
26  The government has committed billions toward defraying the costs of the war.
27  The war interrupted the trade between the two countries.
28  If the Europeans did not reduce subsidies, a trade war would ensue.
29  The war, and the corresponding fall in trade, have had a devastating effect on the country.
30  Trade between the two countries was interrupted by the war.