warring

[ UK /wˈɔːɹɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɔɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. engaged in war
    belligerent (or warring) nations
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How To Use warring In A Sentence

  • As the struggle between the exotic island's warring factions reaches critical mass, further questions emerge from the tangled undergrowth. Times, Sunday Times
  • For example, warring factions often induce drought and famine through the use of scorched-earth tactics.
  • When Manly-Warringah dropped out of the chase, St George stepped up the pressure and have never really let off.
  • He pulled off a major diplomatic coup by winning agreement from all the warring factions on a permanent ceasefire.
  • I love my children in ways that can never be put into words, but there is no hiding the fact that they are imperfect creatures, capable of the same pettiness, resentment, and mean-spiritedness that sets us adults to warring.
  • It comes just days after the warring parents finally settled their custody battle. The Sun
  • Writing in the British journal New Scientist, the famed poet and historian Robert Graves said in 1972, "Technology is now warring openly against the crafts, and science covertly against poetry.
  • The warring factions are attempting to negotiate an end to the conflict.
  • One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two warring souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. from "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" in The Souls of Black Folk. Sunday culture.
  • Getting Congress' warring tribes to back this agenda may be easy by comparison.
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