How to Use civil war in a Sentence
civil war
noun- The country is on the brink of civil war.
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It was quickly realized and most agreed that the upcoming civil war over the throne would not be fought among men on the ground as much as dragons in the air.
— Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022 -
After all, this civil war within the Targaryen clan did come to be known as the Dance of the Dragons.
— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022 -
Enter the Targaryen civil war, historically known as the Dance of the Dragons.
— Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022 -
In the book, several maesters offer their retellings of what happened during the Dance of Dragons, the civil war that consumes the Targaryen clan.
— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022 -
Footage of Cousin Greg and Gerri follows, which could mean that the patriarch’s last allies are switching sides this season in the family’s ongoing civil war.
— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2022 -
That’s a part of the world that has had a very tough time in a civil war.
— Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2023 -
On to a 10th ballot, the most since just before the civil war.
— Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023 -
The Indian state of Manipur is on the verge of civil war.
— Time, 13 July 2023 -
After trying to hold off the impending civil war between the greens and blacks, her peacemaking stance is changed when her and Laenor Velaryon’s second son, Lucerys, is killed.
— Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 24 Oct. 2022 -
The vessel was abandoned after the outbreak of the Yemeni civil war in 2015.
— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 July 2023 -
There are people in this country who claim to want a civil war.
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024 -
But when civil war broke out there in 2002, the father of her two children was killed.
— John Johnston, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2022 -
That conflict followed years of civil war that had already pushed the country to the brink.
— Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024 -
The Syrian civil war has been going on for now a dozen years.
— ABC News, 12 Feb. 2023 -
Once in power, Napoleon sought to ameliorate the effects of the French civil war.
— Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023 -
The trailer opens with scenes of destruction in the U.S., along with news reports about the civil war playing in the background.
— Michaela Zee, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023 -
Her parents fled El Salvador about a year after her birth in the 1980s to escape the civil war.
— Daniel Eduardo Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024 -
Western forces joined the White Russians in their civil war against the Bolsheviks.
— Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 -
One of the best predictors of civil wars is whether a country has had a civil war within the last five years.
— Michael Allen, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023 -
Taiwan, which split from the mainland in 1949 during a civil war, is claimed by China.
— Huizhong Wu, ajc, 27 Dec. 2022 -
Cole’s work on the effects of civil war in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
— Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024 -
Prosecutors said the men's goal was to ignite a civil war.
— Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2022 -
Set in Burma, also known as Myanmar, the film is set against the country's long-raging civil war.
— Justine Browning, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022 -
Kosiah was the first Liberian convicted of war crimes dating from the first civil war.
— Sylvie Corbet, ajc, 2 Nov. 2022 -
Prosecutors said the men were seeking to inspire a U.S. civil war known as the boogaloo.
— USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023 -
The sect had once ruled Yemen for centuries but was marginalized under the Sunni regime that came to power after a 1962 civil war.
— Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023 -
Some Saudi leaders may even see a civil war as useful in weakening the Houthis, as long as Riyadh can stay out of the fighting.
— Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024 -
Think again, as now what has been arguments about content of the show has progressed into a full-on civil war in the Star Wars fandom community.
— Paul Tassi, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 -
What’s needed is far greater pressure to end the civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the rival Arab militia, while pushing the warring parties to allow humanitarian access.
— Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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