How to Use at war in a Sentence

at war

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  • Parents are at war with screen time.
    Meg Oliver, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The two countries were not yet at war with each other.
    Doug Most august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Those two sides have always been at war with each other.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Was their dialect coach at war with vowels?
    Betty Gilpin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The United States is not at war.
    ABC News, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Since last September the city has been at war.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Those were the two opposites that are at war in the entire film.
    CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • That would be expected when these parties have been at war for two years.
    David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The United States is at war with Iran.
    Jim Defede, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • These characters are all at war with each other.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • As a young man at war, Kiniry kept a list of his outfit’s movements.
    Esther Castillejo, ABC News, 6 June 2024
  • No one has ever looked back at war and thought a bombing campaign was a good idea.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Is the United States at war with Iran?
    NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The United States is not at war with Lebanon.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2026
  • And that was in a year in which there was no recession and the nation wasn’t at war.
    Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Because now the winners truly are at war!
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Being at war with Gavin Adcock was one thing.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • At one point, Haddish spoke in a sing-song way about her trip to a country at war.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The fact that Ukraine is still at war makes its case more complicated.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • This match was played just four years after the two countries had been at war and tensions were still high.
    Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • The Iranians are clearly not very good at war.
    Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In addition to Ukraine being at war, the whales were not in the best shape.
    Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • This time last year, Auburn football entered fall camp at war with itself.
    Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Despite their families being at war, the pair fall in love.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Now America’s at war with Iran.
    Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But this time around, with Syria at war, the best or only option would be the sea.
    Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Myanmar has been at war since the army seized power in a coup in 2021.
    Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • One of the main storylines of Vala is passion at war with reason.
    Brittanie Shey, Chron, 11 Apr. 2023
  • At that time Britain had been at war with Germany for seventeen months.
    Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • And the reason for this burning was a family at war with itself.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025

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