truced; trucing
: to make a truce
: to end with a truce
Examples of truce in a Sentence
Noun
There's been an uneasy truce between her and her parents for the past several months.
both sides agreed to a 24-hour truce beginning at midnight on Christmas Eve
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Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
This deeply unstable truce breaks in episode seven during the bachelor and bachelorette parties.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
In a headline-grabbing move earlier this year, Kwek took his son Sherman Kwek, CEO of flagship City Developments, to court for appointing new directors without following due process but two weeks later called a truce and withdrew the lawsuit.
—Jane Ho, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Although China's Nationalists and Communists had been engaged in a civil war for control of the country, Japan's invasion pushed both sides into an uneasy truce that lasted until Japan was defeated.
—Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
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Noun
With a 90-day extension on the two nations’ tariff truce, originally poised to end in early September, the current 10 percent moratorium rate in China isn’t a long-term bet.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
This deeply unstable truce breaks in episode seven during the bachelor and bachelorette parties.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
In a headline-grabbing move earlier this year, Kwek took his son Sherman Kwek, CEO of flagship City Developments, to court for appointing new directors without following due process but two weeks later called a truce and withdrew the lawsuit.
—Jane Ho, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Although China's Nationalists and Communists had been engaged in a civil war for control of the country, Japan's invasion pushed both sides into an uneasy truce that lasted until Japan was defeated.
—Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for truce
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“Truce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truce. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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