How to Use lawfare in a Sentence

lawfare

noun

• In lawfare, the process is the punishment, even for a bit player like me.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
• So, if this lawfare attack is not an impulsive tantrum, what is the strategic rationale?
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026
• Every family that heats a home or fills a tank deserves the relief that the end of climate lawfare would provide.
  — Liam Donovan, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2026
• Perhaps the strongest lawfare move for the US and its allies is to cut insurance to the shadow fleet.
  — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• To this point, most federal and state judges who ultimately decide these lawfare cases seem to agree with that assessment.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• China also still maintains control over Scarborough Shoal, and is using lawfare to bolster its claim.
  — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
• The practical result would change a bill designed to stop climate lawfare to one that preserves one of the largest and most expensive litigation campaigns facing Louisiana’s energy sector.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• Russia and China are using lawfare—strategically and intentionally exploiting gaps in international law—to thwart law-abiding states’ attempts to stop the shadow fleet.
  — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Though perhaps on life support now, this lawfare campaign remains alive with cases brought by the city and county of Boulder, Colorado, and the city and county of Honolulu, Hawaii still making their ways through the court system.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• The case, part of an ongoing lawfare effort in which local governments have been recruited to serve as plaintiffs, sought to hold the companies liable for damages the island suffered as a result of Hurricane Maria, which struck Puerto Rico in 2017.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• The Premier League’s rising legal bills have been widely reported, but further proof of football’s rampant lawfare came with the publication last week of FIFA’s Football Tribunal Report 2024-25.
  — Matt Slater, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025