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. All is fair in love and war.
2. One country declared war on another.
3. The threat of war has depressed business activity.
4. The people have to accept the harsh exigency of war.
5. He fought in the N African campaign during the last war.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of WAR
war
 n.  the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
 v.  make or wage war
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The people have to accept the harsh exigency of war.
2  The newspapers give a very one-sided account of the war.
3  The important question is whether he is prepared to go to war to achieve his territorial ambitions.
4  The threat of war has depressed business activity.
5  Every day they are talking about peace but actually preparing for war.
6  Television may actually be distancing the public from the war.
7  The US administration recently branded him a war criminal.
8  The US administration would like to see a negotiated settlement to the war.
9  The administration coyly refused to put a firm figure on the war's costs.
10  These photographs will affect people's perceptions of war.
11  He fought in the N African campaign during the last war.
12  The government agency was created to hunt down war criminals.
13  All is fair in love and war.
14  Among the protesters and war veterans proudly displaying their medals was Aubrey Rose.
15  One country declared war on another.