How to Use allied in a Sentence

allied

adjective
  • Beauty allied to drive and aggression: still not enough.
    Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • The men and women in it, mostly Air Force but some from allied countries, guard the highest of high grounds: space.
    The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • During his Australia stop on Sunday, Esper made the case for allied help.
    Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Militant groups have hit back hard, killing an average of more than a dozen soldiers and allied militiamen per day in recent weeks.
    Zeina Karam, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2019
  • American and allied forces lost four cruisers, while the Japanese Navy suffered little damage.
    Benjamin Jensen, The Conversation, 25 July 2019
  • Lam and his fellow Chinese naval officers supported the Allied troops on the beaches from one of the British ships off the French coast.
    Peter Guo, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • His unit traveled the farthest East of all the allied forces into Steyr, Germany and liberated two concentration camps along the way.
    courant.com, 4 Aug. 2019
  • The allied countries have been in talks on the matter for months.
    Reuters, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This allied approach works with stress in much the same way.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Opponents allied with both the Palestinians and Israeli sides have argued that diplomatic agreements must precede economic ones.
    Fortune, 30 June 2019
  • The Allied soldiers who weren’t killed limped back from the defeat.
    Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The allied forces must always let China make the first move.
    Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Now one of them—or its wreckage, at least—is in Ukrainian and allied hands.
    David Axe, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • With the aid of allied politicians, the NRA has kept the amendment and related riders in place.
    Will Van Sant, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • But that allied force must be able to make good use of the intelligence the F-35s collect.
    David Axe, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • His team played a vital, long-secret role in Allied success in the war.
    Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
  • There is an allied reason why that type of adornment works.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Nursing would merge with allied health and the fine arts, my school, will be absorbed by arts and sciences.
    Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The code was never broken and the Code Talkers were credited with helping the allied forces win the war.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The attacks marked one of the single deadliest days for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in the 20 years since the allied invasion.
    Melissa Quinn, Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Germany is one of the world’s largest arms exporters and ships weapons to non-allied countries such as Egypt or Pakistan.
    Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The United States has banned the import or sale of Huawei’s telecom-network gear and has urged allied nations not to use it.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Even with the 33 seats that the far-right Vox got and the one seat going to an allied party, the PP was still seven seats short of a majority.
    Joseph Wilson and Ciarán Giles, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2023
  • Thus far, support for Ukraine has proved durable among allied nations.
    Elliot Ackerman, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Yet the question of a gas embargo is part of a wider long-term challenge to the allied pressure campaign against Mr. Putin.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Code Talkers were credited with helping the allied forces win the war and have been seen as heroes ever since.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The 3,000 will bolster allied forces in Germany, Poland and Romania.
    Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Otto urged Rhaenyra to pick someone from an allied house, but Criston comes from a more humble background as the son of a steward.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 Aug. 2022
  • But Iran has 31 provinces and authorities haven't taken the step to lock down the country like in the allied nations of Iraq and Lebanon.
    NBC News, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The Allied invasion of Sicily was now only three weeks away.
    Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024

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