How to Use truce in a Sentence

truce

noun

• There's been an uneasy truce between her and her parents for the past several months.
• The war in Yemen had reached its 18th month of a truce.
  — Jake Sullivan, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• An uneasy truce held long enough for Spain to conquer the world.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• In the story, there were mentions of gang conflicts and truces.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The volatile pair reconciled hours later, but the truce was short-lived.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2022
• In a statement on Friday, Blinken urged both sides to uphold the truce.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2023
• The truce apparently marked the end of a conflict that has raged on and off for three decades.
  — Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
• But Loeb soon backed off on that proposal and reached a truce with the Disney board.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
• As part of the truce, Prigozhin had agreed to move to Belarus to avoid prosecution.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 26 June 2023
• The untimely loss of the rap legend triggered a wave of truce talks between Blood and Crips.
  — Jeff Weiss, Variety, 14 Aug. 2022
• The whereabouts of Prigozhin, who had agreed to go to Belarus as part of a truce with Putin, couldn't be determined.
  — WSJ, 26 June 2023
• The Institute for the Study of War said the truce could be a ruse allowing Russia to regroup.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2023
• The Institute for the Study of War agreed the truce could be a ruse allowing Russia to regroup.
  — Andrew Meldrum, ajc, 6 Jan. 2023
• The Institute for the Study of War agreed that the truce could be a ruse allowing Russia to regroup.
  — Andrew Meldrum, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• Jay’s mother - Lois, 85 - rolled her eyes as the two men reached a truce based on their mutual love of Mel Brooks.
  — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• The truce in late 2020 was brokered in large part by Russia, which deployed a contingent of troops to keep the peace.
  — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• That means an uneasy truce between Prigozhin and the Defense Ministry — at least for now.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 4 Mar. 2023
• The announcement said the truce had been in effect for several hours.
  — Reuters, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
• Mendenhall helped institute a 1992 truce between gangs in Watts and is no stranger to grief.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Aid groups say the truce, which was first agreed to in April, reduced violence as much as 60 percent.
  — John Hudson, Jeff Stein and Tyler Pager, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2022
• Israeli airstrikes, which have resumed after a brief truce, can come at any time.
  — Jeremy White, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• The White House wants to preserve the truce and has been wary of taking action in Yemen that could open up another war front.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• While a truce is in place, the official said much more must be done to address the causes of the conflict and put in place a formal peace process.
  — Sara Khojoyan, Bloomberg.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• On the rainy streets of Kyiv, some questioned the Russians’ sincerity in discussing a truce.
  — Andrew Meldrum, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• Joe Jonas and Sophie turner have come to a temporary truce.
  — Anna Chan, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2023
• Kyiv said its forces wouldn’t observe the cease-fire and has long viewed suggestions of a truce as efforts to buy Moscow time.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Though the truce expired in October, the peace has largely held, and back-channel talks between the Houthis and the Saudis have resumed.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
• Whether that uneasy truce holds is unknown, but this much is certain, Putin’s iron grip on Russia is now in doubt.
  — ABC News, 25 June 2023
• But the war ended in 1953 with an armistice, not a truce, and the division of the peninsula became permanent.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• The resumption of fighting signals that US and Saudi efforts to extend the truce have failed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024