How to Use cold war in a Sentence

cold war

noun

• The sheriff’s office and the tribal police are effectively engaged in a cold war.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• Instead, of course, the U.S. triumphed in both the space race and cold war.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2020
• Over the years that followed, a full-on cold war blossomed.
  — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
• There’s a trade war on with China, which some think is a new kind of cold war.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 6 June 2019
• Call it the latest phase in what could be a cyber-era cold war.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2020
• But this can’t be what sets the budding cold war between the U.S. and China apart from the old.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 17 May 2022
• Any thought of winning a new cold war has to start from this dismal fact.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
• That Dongfeng was born in Shiyan is because of cold war angst, at least in local lore.
  — Lavender Au, The New York Review of Books, 4 Feb. 2020
• Sleep on opposite sides of the bed with your backs to each other in a queen-size cold war?
  — Karley Sciortino, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2019
• The Knicks and Bulls have spent the better part of the past decade locked in a cold war to see who can alienate more lifelong fans.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 13 July 2018
• This all comes, by the way, at a time when Apple has stepped up its cold war against Facebook.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 18 Aug. 2021
• Two years later, the name again stoked cold war analogies when the Reds played the Yankees in the World Series.
  — Chris Lamb, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
• The new cold war with China doesn’t need to be as frightening.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• Taiwan is in a sense the West Berlin of the new cold war unfolding between Beijing and the free world.
  — Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
• The new cold war with China could be a good thing, Doyle McManus wrote in his column.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• This cold war—should the world indeed succumb to it—will be different from the first one.
  — Michael Doyle, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• Still, the icy sentiment blowing through these Olympics is not quite a cold war.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
• Meanwhile, the girls have cold wars that last for episodes—sometimes even seasons.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 19 May 2020
• But make no mistake, this cold war of words has been simmering in the background for over a decade.
  — Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
• Comparisons with the cold war do not capture the problem.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
• Even such a limited cold war might not be fully priced in.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 23 May 2019
• Many countries have been caught between the United States and China in their tech cold war.
  — Adam Satariano, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2020
• Just a few years earlier, the two countries ended a decades-long cold war.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• Let that be proof that the long cold war between PC gamers and tabletop gamers is finally over.
  — Luke Winkie, Wired, 1 June 2021
• India has a lot to lose if Russia ignites a new cold war in Europe.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
• Mrs Ri is not the only cold war relic that could be put back into service as a result of the test.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• As the Arab cold war spreads, Iran and other foes are gaining advantage.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• Clearly, Otto is ready for this cold war to heat up, though that's easy to say now that his side has the world's biggest dragon.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 2 Oct. 2022
• On these muddy fields in England’s rural heartland, a kind of cold war rages.
  — Euan Ward, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• The two duchesses of deception, Mia and Karen, also continue to circle each other in this cold war.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024