How to Use at war in a Sentence

at war

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  • So, his brain and his body are always at war in some way.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Israel is at war with Hamas, not with the people of Gaza.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Those were the two opposites that are at war in the entire film.
    — CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • At one point, Haddish spoke in a sing-song way about her trip to a country at war.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • But this time around, with Syria at war, the best or only option would be the sea.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Former coffee boss Howard Schultz was at war with his rank and file over the creation of a union in 2021.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The prince, who took the stand on Tuesday, has been at war with the raucous, freewheeling press for years.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • The fact that Ukraine is still at war makes its case more complicated.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • No one has ever looked back at war and thought a bombing campaign was a good idea.
    — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Subtract is at war with the tendency to smother a record in the stuff most people would want to hear.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 May 2023
  • Subtract is at war with the tendency to smother a record in the stuff most people would want to hear.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 May 2023
  • One of the main storylines of Vala is passion at war with reason.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Trump had been at war with CNN since 2016 and had not appeared for an interview since.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • In this sharp program, City Ballet presents two ways of looking at war.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • That seems to be a position that is at war with the whole thrust of the 14th Amendment and very ahistorical.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The group is now at war with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, which puts it under pressure.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • This time last year, Auburn football entered fall camp at war with itself.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Japan spread a similar sort of rule throughout Asia, and before long the United States was at war.
    — Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • That part of me who loves all things extra is at war with the part of me that doesn’t always have time to make everything extra.
    — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • After all he the first Prime Minister to come to power while the country was at war since the Korean War.
    — Zenger News, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • For the single mother whose son is at war, protest, once unthinkable, now seems a last desperate hope to save him.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The problem that led to McCarthy’s ouster hasn’t gone away: House Republicans are still at war with themselves.
    — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • No one was interested in digging around in a country at war.
    — ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Many presume the sightings are military aircraft or drones, as Russia and Ukraine are at war.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
  • Britain, France, and Russia, who had been at war since the summer of 1914, welcomed the news that American forces and supplies would be used in the Allied war effort.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • So Apple and the Commission were already at war before this latest Epic episode.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • With Ukraine at war decades later, her son and a community of strangers repaid the kindness and sheltered a Ukrainian refugee.
    — Kenya Romero, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The Koreas are still technically at war since a peace treaty was never signed.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • This is the hostile, paranoid atmosphere of Russians at war with Ukraine and with one another.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
  • Earlier this month, Hamas launched the biggest volley of rockets at Israel from Lebanon since those countries were last at war in 2006.
    — Saud Abu Ramadan, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023

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