How to Use alliance in a Sentence

alliance

noun
  • There is disagreement within the alliance about how to deal with this problem.
  • There has been a pattern of shifting alliances in the political world.
  • We need to form a closer alliance between government and industry.
  • The article condemns what some say is an unholy alliance between government and media.
  • At the end of the day, my own alliance turned on me and voted me out.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 July 2021
  • This was often the rhythm of such alliances in those days.
    Lynn Freed, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • If the alliance crumbles, buyers will be among the losers.
    Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2020
  • The two have remained in contact, and the alliance led to these practices.
    cleveland, 19 Aug. 2021
  • And then there’s the unholy alliance of toilet seats and food.
    Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024
  • That means there's a decent amount of talk about the future of the alliance at the beginning of the episode.
    Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The two groups are in an alliance against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
    SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • To be one of the young guys on the way up, its pretty awesome just to be a small part of this alliance.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Forming an alliance to share power may take some of the pressure off of you.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2021
  • But keeping client interests at the center of the alliance is key.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Ankara, however, hasn't always been a thorn in the side of the alliance.
    Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 29 June 2022
  • Their old allies hate them, and their new alliance doesn’t trust them.
    Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • An alliance that proved to be only as good as the paper it wasn’t printed on.
    oregonlive, 29 July 2022
  • For this, novel alliances are being forged between the old and new.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz India, 15 Apr. 2020
  • This would be a mistake, and a serious setback for the alliance.
    Arthur L. Herman, National Review, 27 Aug. 2020
  • So much for Josh's promise, and so much for that vet alliance.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • But one of the alliance members got burned this week in a scene that never made it to TV.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But in a real friendship or alliance there are no winners or losers.
    Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 11 July 2018
  • This requires not just strength of purpose but also the building of alliances.
    The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • To the English, this alliance was the first glimmer of hope that their weak colony might survive.
    National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • That could prove even more harmful, according to the alliance.
    Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
  • The breakthrough deal took public what had been a long-secret alliance.
    Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
  • June and the Lawrences need to get out — which is what makes their alliance so possible and so thrilling.
    Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
  • The season began with a sibling alliance, and plans to take their father down for good.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The best cable dramas wrap each episode around a grander theme, and this one was about the realignment of alliances.
    Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • What is an alliance if we're not supposed to be honest with each other?
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2022

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