How to Use war party in a Sentence

war party

noun
  • The warring parties have been locked in a bloody stalemate for most of the last three years.
    — Time, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The bold ones surge out like a marauding war party to meet whatever gets caught in their web.
    — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2019
  • One man shared a story about a young Native man who went on his first war party but was killed by an enemy tribe.
    — Kevin Abourezk, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The envoy had heard about the school that brought children of warring parties together and wanted to have a look.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
  • After three days of pursuit, Boone and his men stole upon the war party, saved the girls and killed two of the warriors.
    — Peter Cozzens, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The expectation is that the warring parties will avoid bombing those areas.
    — Patrick Dehahn, Quartz, 22 June 2019
  • The war in Afghanistan is 16 years old, yet America does not have an anti-war party.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The United Nations will call for an emergency meeting to work a cease-fire among all warring parties.
    — chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The regulator has instead suggested the warring parties come to terms on their own, said one person briefed on the matter.
    — WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • As tensions with the Mexican government increased, this group became known as the war party.
    — Robert Kolarik, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The talks, meant to be the first between Yemen's warring parties in two years, were scheduled for Thursday in Geneva.
    — Ahmed Al-Haj, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Yet these two nations are among the great unreconciled of the 20th century’s warring parties.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The rules allow warring parties to inspect goods such as food, fuel and medicines destined for civilians but not to excessively delay them.
    — Sarah Algethami, Bloomberg.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Delegations from the warring parties met for talks on Tuesday in the town of Zawiya, west of Tripoli.
    — Samy Magdy, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Strikingly, there is no war party in Congress banging the drum for unilateral action.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The panoply of conflicts and warring parties has made the war resistant to international peacemaking.
    — Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Fighting ceased in 1953, but the warring parties only signed an armistice — a truce — which means the war technically continues to this day.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Their response to Haftar’s deployments has so far been political, with a delegation sent to talk to warring parties.
    — Bloomberg.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • If the warring parties cannot agree on an equitable distribution, one obvious option is to hire appraisers to then haggle over the division.
    — Julie Belcove, Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The 2015 peace deal provided for such withdrawal to set up a safe buffer zone, but both warring parties have balked at implementing the demand.
    — Yuras Karmanau, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Zolotukhin is spokesman for the Russian center for reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria.
    — Fox News, 17 Mar. 2018
  • For example, warring parties often target civilian facilities, such as hospitals and schools.
    — Ann M. Simmons, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Internal borders that divide warring parties mean ordinary Syrians must cough up cash to navigate daily life, even as the conflict begins to wind down.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
  • Take ending the Korean War, which is technically still going since the warring parties agreed to pause the war — not end it — in 1953.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
  • As has been well documented, the midfielder's contract with Schalke runs out at the end of the season, which has lead to the veritable dogfight that has ensued between the warring parties.
    — SI.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • Both Russia and Turkey have been accused of exacerbating the conflict in Libya by giving military aid to its warring parties.
    — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Another approach would include creation of a special assembly of Afghanistan leaders that would choose a new interim government to run the country while the warring parties work on a plan to end the war.
    — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
  • The withdrawal of Houthi fighters from the strategic city was part of an agreement reached between Yemen's warring parties in Stockholm last December.
    — Becky Anderson, CNN, 8 July 2019
  • No vote has been scheduled and council diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because talks have been private, said some members want to wait until after a meeting of the warring parties in Sweden.
    — Edith M. Lederer, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
  • De Mistura has held several rounds of negotiations with Syria's warring parties in recent years but has made little progress toward ending the conflict.
    — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018

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