How to Use the Allies in a Sentence

the Allies

plural noun

• As the tide of the war turned in the Allies’ favor in the second half of 1942, the focus was on offense.
  — Robert Hutton, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• By episode three, the Allies are approaching Paris, which is in chaos.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
• The dive bombers provided shock effect to make up for the German lack of tanks compared to the Allies.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• The family was just a few miles from safety, from the chunk of Italy occupied by the Allies.
  — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
• They were stunned that the Allies had succeeded in so little time.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
• But the end of the war was on the horizon, and the Allies liberated Amsterdam in May 1945.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
• What the Allies did were acts of war in the service of a lasting peace, not genocide in the service of a fanatical aim.
  — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• By the spring of 1945, with Germany defeated, the Allies turned to an obdurate Japan.
  — Peter Englund, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• In 1944, with the Allies approaching, the Germans removed Pétain (who didn’t want to go) from France.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Taken as a prisoner of war, he was held for only 22 hours as the Allies pressed their advance.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
• Some among the Allies even thought this approach might make ordinary Germans rebel against Hitler’s regime.
  — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
• Back at base on D-Day night, he was told the Allies had suffered thousands of casualties.
  — John Leicester, TIME, 4 June 2024
• The gas had come from the Allies’ own munitions; it was being delivered to the front for potential use against the Germans.
  — Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• Four days earlier, the Allies had landed on the beaches of Normandy in the D-Day invasion.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• Mohammed welcomed the Allies with open arms and sent Moroccan troops to continue the fight.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• As the Allies approached in 1945, prisoners were sent on a death march, but Catherine managed to escape.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
• None of their ships or boats could get close enough to the shore without being detected, so the Allies needed miniature submarines—and divers.
  — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
• Casualties were so heavy the Allies never conducted a major landing for the rest of the war.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
• On the other hand, casualties were lighter than expected, and the beachheads allowed the Allies to pour in men and equipment.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
• The plane's mission, in support of the D-Day aftermath, was to soften German positions as the Allies advanced.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
• Yet pessimistic headlines and disappointing, even costly, setbacks did not cause the Allies to give up.
  — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
• Hood himself was a left-winger and a soldier, famed for his fighting in Italy, as well as being the officer in charge of debriefing Jünger after he was captured by the Allies.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• If the Allies risked it anyway, but the skies did not clear enough for airborne troops to make their jumps or for Allied warplanes to protect the beachheads, an onrush of German tanks could crush the toeholds on French sand.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
• There was less fighting than the Allies expected, and though some lives were tragically lost, before noon the French flag was once again flying above the Eiffel Tower.
  — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• Lajos was imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen and died shortly after the Allies liberated the camp.
  — Lily Meyer, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• To advance across Europe and into Germany, the Allies also needed a reliable tank.
  — Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
• Less than a year had passed since Japan’s surrender to the Allies; a few days prior, the tribunal’s chief prosecutor had handed down a 55-count indictment of Japan’s wartime military and civilian leaders.
  — Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
• Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust, ordered a commander on Alderney to kill his prisoners if the Allies invaded.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• Some of the Allies’ covert operations later became famous.
  — Robert Hutton, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• To respond, the Allies had to develop similar tactics and formations.
  — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024