CONFLICT in a Sentence
Learn CONFLICT 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.
195 example sentences for CONFLICT, such as:
1. This conflict lasted two hours.
2. The conflict on the plateau continued.
3. The local war escalated into a major conflict.
4. Each man had taken up his position for the conflict.
5. The book's theme is the conflict between love and duty.
2. The conflict on the plateau continued.
3. The local war escalated into a major conflict.
4. Each man had taken up his position for the conflict.
5. The book's theme is the conflict between love and duty.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CONFLICT
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conflict
n. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
v. be in conflict
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1 It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo.
2 In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, the other like her good angel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
3 The violent conflict which had been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; and every moment he encountered some new phase of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
4 There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict.
5 It was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
6 This conflict lasted two hours.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
7 The conflict on the plateau continued.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
8 A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing.
9 This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin of society.
10 From this secret conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the European cabinets is suspicious in itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
11 She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort of inward conflict.
12 To meet the needs of this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is slang.
13 Each man had taken up his position for the conflict.
14 War, strife, conflict, were the very air he breathed and put him in a good humor.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
15 One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict.
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1 Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
2 The UN must perform a difficult balancing act between the two sides in the conflict.
3 It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that deeps freedom alive.
4 But local attorney Bill Risner raises a potential problem for Scott on the governance side of the conflict equation.
5 The boy pulled the boat's head round in order to avoid the conflict with the boat in front of him.
6 Both the Americans and the Russians are anxious to avoid conflict in South Asia.
7 It is sometimes impossible to avoid conflict altogether.
8 The local war escalated into a major conflict.
9 She found herself in conflict with her parents over her future career.
10 We should recant all opinions which are in conflict with those proclaimed by the central leadership.
11 A very real danger exists of the conflict becoming internationalised.
12 It is rare for the responsibility for causing conflict to rest solely on one side.
13 The book's theme is the conflict between love and duty.
14 Of course the ultimate responsibility for the present conflict without doubt lies with the aggressor.
15 There's always a conflict between good and evil in his plays.