How to Use intercommunal in a Sentence

intercommunal

adjective

• Symbols of the lack of hope and the cycle of intercommunal violence are many.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2023
• Since then, sporadic intercommunal clashes have increased in the region.
  — NBC News, 26 Apr. 2022
• Many of his stories drench the murderous absurdities of intercommunal strife in bitter irony.
  — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, vicious intercommunal fighting in parts of South Sudan has killed hundreds of people this year.
  — Maura Ajak, Star Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
• Something that began as a well-meaning intercommunal misfire might actually stoke the flames of a more direct conflict, or put you on the defensive.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Nov. 2024
• Now ethnic tensions and intercommunal violence are posing a growing challenge to his reforms.
  — Elias Meseret, Star Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
• Anger over the spiraling conflict has sparked deadly protests in the occupied West Bank and a wave of intercommunal violence in Israel.
  — NBC News, 16 May 2021
• Yet the attacks, which often kill scores of civilians, have successfully increased intercommunal tensions and, in some cases, have even led to the expulsion of Shiites.
  — Mohanad Hage Ali, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
• The recent wave of Arab-Jewish clashes within Israel was the most serious outbreak of intercommunal unrest since that time.
  — NBC News, 22 May 2021
• And in a very interesting time, because in the most recent conflict, there was terrible intercommunal violence that really shocked most Israelis.
  — CBS News, 23 June 2021
• The area is where Israel bombed Syrian troops on their way to Sweida, a Druze-majority city that was engulfed in intercommunal violence at the time.
  — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
• Arabs and Jews in Lod and elsewhere turned on each other with a rage that shocked many Israelis and left them fearful that the country’s intercommunal relations had been permanently altered, if not sundered.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2021
• The war was accompanied by deadly intercommunal street battles and bloody confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers across the West Bank.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• The subsequent outbreak of intercommunal violence in cities with large Arab-Israeli populations is a reminder of Israel’s pressing domestic challenges.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 May 2021
• The battle for power between Sudan’s top two generals has reignited intercommunal violence in the country’s Darfur region, a gold-rich area still scarred by what is widely considered the first genocide of the 21st century.
  — Nicholas Bariyo, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
• Yet the Israeli political situation is so atrophied that public opinion appears to have been barely moved by the conflict with Hamas or the eruption of intercommunal violence in mixed Arab and Jewish cities across the country.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 26 May 2021
• The conflict between these two former Soviet republics in the Caucasus, on the border between Europe and Asia, was the culmination of tensions that had been building for more than 25 years and intercommunal dynamics that were far older than that.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 3 June 2024
• Understanding these dynamics can inform international efforts to promote human rights and foster intercommunal solidarity in heterogeneous societies.
  — Türkay Salim Nefes, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2024
• In regions facing armed and intercommunal violence, FFC strengthens women’s participation in local decision-making and confronts the inequality that fuels instability.
  — Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026