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How to use truce in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, verb

Truce means a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties. Example: “He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.”

Examples of truce by meaning

nounA period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.

  • An uneasy truce

nounAn agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.

  • He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.

More sentences with truce

  • All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.From the entry hope
  • The general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.From the entry deputation
  • All hopes for a truce are gone.From the entry gone
  • The rival factions clapped up a truce.From the entry clap
  • The truce between the two countries has been patched up.From the entry patch
  • It’s a public truce under the guise of a joint slay.2024 June 21, Jason P. Frank, “Who Else Needs to Work It Out on a Remix?”, in Vulture. From the entry slay
  • With the arrival of European settlers, an uneasy truce was established tween man and skunk.2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (1:33 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by…. From the entry 'tween
  • Afterward, she returns to the Dragon Pit to announce her agreement to the truce.2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV…. From the entry zag
  • Eventually a truce was declared and a line drawn between the leftern and the rightern semispheres.2016, Dave Jeanes, The Gods, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN. From the entry rightern
  • You sat and had the audacity to beg for forgiveness, for a truce, for a forgettance.2016, Nadia Wheaton, The Kind of Secrets That Only Strangers Can Swallow. From the entry forgettance
  • Calling a truce and limping back under our own roof would not be peace.1947, To you - Volumes 14-16, page 31. From the entry whip the cat
  • Peter came to the rescue with what might have been a young flag of truce.1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon. From the entry handkerchief
  • The truce established the stream as the boundary between Tibet and China Proper.[1933 December 2, “Tibetan Troops Renew Attack on Sikong”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 67, number 1, →OCLC, page 32, column 2. From the entry Dalai Lama
  • We have no intention of violating their market truce.1996, Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere, page 73. From the entry scrobble
  • We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will.1941, Winston Churchill, The Unrelenting Struggle. From the entry grisly
  • Do not interrupt; a truce to your raillery!1901, Henry Murger [i.e., Henri Murger], “Floods of Pactolus”, in Ellen Marriage, John Selwyn, transl., The Latin Quarter: (“Scènes de la…. From the entry empanoply
  • Yet this war of ideals was also a war of many truces, for there were many grounds for accommodation between generals and hoplites.2006, J. E. Lendon, Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity, unnumbered page. From the entry hoplite
  • The May 31 truce at T'ang-ku suggested that the Japanese might be satisfied with these gains, which more than fulfilled their stated purpose.2002, Dorothy V. Jones, Toward a Just World, University of Chicago, →OCLC, page 108. From the entry Manchukuo
  • In India and in the Formosa Straits area, and at the truce negotiations at Panmunjom, we dropped the word, discreetly, of our intention.1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181. From the entry Formosa Straits
  • Asian policy is spreading among anti-Communists in Southeast Asia, who fear that the Korean truce is the first sign of U.S. withdrawal.1953 December 7, “ASIA: The Two Anti-Communists”, in TIME. From the entry Frenchman
  • As for Cersei, pretending to work with her enemies while secretly hatching some grander scheme was pretty much what I expected for the truce going into it.2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV…. From the entry hatch

Meaning of truce

  1. noun A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
  2. noun An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
  3. verb To come to an agreement to cease fighting.

Full definition of truce

Questions about truce in a sentence

How do you use truce in a sentence?
Truce is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.”
What is a short sentence with truce?
“An uneasy truce”
What does truce mean?
Truce means a period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.

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