How to Use warfare in a Sentence

warfare

noun
  • The issues are the rate of change in the nature of warfare and the reasons for it.
    Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The rise of drones as the next level of modern warfare.
    TIME, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The romance is stark against a backdrop of brutish warfare.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The Emiratis did not need to be sold on the value of online warfare.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In the skies over Ukraine, a new epoch in air warfare is emerging: drone-on-drone combat.
    Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Now 1,000 of those officers might head to Haiti to take on gang warfare.
    Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And John Spencer, the head of urban warfare at West Point, says that no other army has faced such a task.
    CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The pace has ramped up, but Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been engaged in this type of warfare against the West for two decades.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Tech has always played a role in warfare, though some of Google’s workers would like it not to.
    Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
  • For years, experts have warned about the dangers of using AI in warfare.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The kill may also tell us something about the current state and future of tank warfare.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • One of the most difficult weapons to defend against in modern warfare is a tank.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
  • This was the first time in warfare that air evacuation was used to a large degree.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Carl’s abduction, which turns out to be a bit of class warfare, has given him P.T.S.D.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • The risks of this new form of economic warfare are immense to the global oil supply.
    Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2022
  • In warfare, there are two types of fire: direct and indirect fire.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But this week’s attacks by Russia mark the beginning of a dark new era for drone warfare in Ukraine.
    WIRED, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But in the lead-up to Friday’s vote, both companies have been rocked by legal warfare.
    Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But they aren’t commonly used in warfare – and for good reason.
    Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Orr laughed when asked about the young linebacker’s affinity for padded warfare.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2024
  • How much could the Palantir software achieve in a place like Bakhmut where street warfare has been dominant?
    Bruno Maçães, Time, 10 July 2023
  • When the plague descends, so does class warfare as the newcomer rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Drones are rapidly expanding to fill every warfare’s niche, and military forces in the air, on the ground, and at sea must have a plan to deal with them.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Their main battle tank, the Merkava, is a tank that is optimized for urban warfare, has the engine in front, which - which not a lot of tanks in the world do.
    CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • My father served as the electronic warfare officer on the lead B-52 from Guam.
    Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • For its part, the U.S. military cut its teeth on modern urban warfare in Iraq.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The Harris of 2023 and beyond has been careful not to slam the door on factions of the far left who see Israeli warfare in Gaza as genocidal.
    Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Aug. 2024
  • After more than a year of relentless warfare, a fatigued Israeli public knows that more than 100 hostages are still imprisoned in Gaza and tens of thousands more remain displaced from their homes.
    Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024
  • For decades, Israel has refrained from adopting a policy of preemptive warfare.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

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