How to Use civil war in a Sentence

civil war

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  • The country is on the brink of civil war.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Elon Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ as UK rocked by far-right riots.
    — Reuters, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Cregan will likely become Lord of Winterfell by the time of the civil war.
    — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The two sides have been ruled by separate governments since 1949, after the end of the Chinese civil war.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 1 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The two have been on opposing sides in Syria's civil war but in recent months have launched low-level talks.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Even if Hezbollah were substantially weakened, taking it on would spark a civil war.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The Dutton family civil war in Yellowstone breaks out into open warfare in the official trailer for the second half of season five.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Oct. 2024

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