truced; trucing
: to make a truce
: to end with a truce
Examples of truce in a Sentence
Noun
There's been an uneasy truce between her and her parents for the past several months.
both sides agreed to a 24-hour truce beginning at midnight on Christmas Eve
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Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2025
Israel and Hezbollah remain publicly committed to a ceasefire agreement signed on November 27 but have repeatedly accused one another of violating their truce.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Putin, when announcing the ceasefire before heading to an Orthodox Easter service, said the truce would show whether or not Ukraine was ready or able to implement peace.
—Guy Faulconbridge and Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Zelensky said that Russia must fully adhere to the ceasefire conditions and reiterated Ukraine’s offer to extend the truce for 30 days, starting midnight Sunday.
—Volodymyr Yurchuk and Elise Morton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
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Noun
But Easter Sunday coincided with a declaration of an unexpected, 30-hour truce by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
—Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2025
Israel and Hezbollah remain publicly committed to a ceasefire agreement signed on November 27 but have repeatedly accused one another of violating their truce.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Putin, when announcing the ceasefire before heading to an Orthodox Easter service, said the truce would show whether or not Ukraine was ready or able to implement peace.
—Guy Faulconbridge and Pavel Polityuk, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Zelensky said that Russia must fully adhere to the ceasefire conditions and reiterated Ukraine’s offer to extend the truce for 30 days, starting midnight Sunday.
—Volodymyr Yurchuk and Elise Morton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
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“Truce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truce. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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