How to Use anti-war in a Sentence

anti-war

adjective
  • The civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s inspired her.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Of course, Trump was never a free-speech, pro-labor, anti-war paragon in the first place.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The group’s members also were active in the anti-war protests later in the decade.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The exchange, at least in the short term, means those anti-war voices are exiled, and not a threat to the system.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Only Waits could turn a list into one of the most poignant anti-war songs ever.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Still, could the war in Ukraine inspire the Academy to honor this anti-war film?
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Many of the roughly 150 people there are wearing fuschia in honor of Code Pink, the anti-war group hosting the event.
    — TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Our position is anti-war — there is no room for any gray zones.
    — Stjepan Hundic, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2023
  • White, male, Christian, anti-war, an enemy to the Biden regime.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In Yefremov, Russia, a 13-year-old girl drew an anti-war picture in school.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Around the world, thousands took to the streets to join anti-war demonstrations with record attendances.
    — Gary Grimes, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Ellsberg spent much of the rest of his life as prominent anti-war activist.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The crowd cheered, but in the 1960s the boxer had been criticized for his religious beliefs and anti-war stance.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • My parents were very involved in the anti-war movement and the anti-nuke movement.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2024
  • That song was among the emotional highlights of the concert, as anti-war images flooded the video screen.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Yet McCloskey stood in front of the Capitol to address throngs of angry young anti-war marchers in October of 1969.
    — Ron Elving, NPR, 18 May 2024
  • Yes, Avis and Stanley become involved in the anti-war movement.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Walton’s involvement with civic unrest and the anti-war protests at UCLA will also be part of the series.
    — oregonlive, 2 May 2023
  • Mikhail says his boss forced him to quit his job because parents complained about his public anti-war stance.
    — Rosa Flores, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The country was engulfed in anti-war protests as tens of thousands of young Americans died for nothing, and many more were left scarred for life.
    — Vuk Vukovic, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
  • DeWitt, a longtime anti-war activist and advocate for the unhoused, flew to Texas in 2018 with a friend for a protest rally in McAllen.
    — Palabra, al, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Richard Nixon enraged the anti-war masses without even showing up.
    — Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 4 July 2023
  • Her sustained ethos in the anti-war space extends to the crisis in Gaza as well—an issue that has galvanized the youth movement throughout the country.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
  • One talk show compared Carlson’s visit to Jane Fonda’s anti-war trip to Vietnam in 1972.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The arrests marked the first time the university has called the cops on student protesters since 1968, during anti-war protests against the Vietnam War.
    — Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
  • These efforts sought to disrupt and undermine anti-war and New Left movements.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The director of The Zone of Interest accepted his award with an anti-war speech that drew praise and confusion.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • She was arrested for anti-war posts on social media, the BBC reports.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Blockading roads is not a new tactic: Suffragettes, civil rights activists, and anti-war activists have all blocked roads in past decades.
    — Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2023
  • And in an era of rampant counterintelligence programs conducted on anti-war and hippie movements, where did the FBI fit into all this?
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025

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