How to Use warfare in a Sentence

warfare

noun
  • The issues are the rate of change in the nature of warfare and the reasons for it.
    Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The rise of drones as the next level of modern warfare.
    TIME, 2 Mar. 2024
  • As the mechanics of warfare changed, the home’s work changed.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The romance is stark against a backdrop of brutish warfare.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The Emiratis did not need to be sold on the value of online warfare.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In the skies over Ukraine, a new epoch in air warfare is emerging: drone-on-drone combat.
    Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Now 1,000 of those officers might head to Haiti to take on gang warfare.
    Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And the rest of us are just trying to figure out the rules to the game, and the game is in complete judicial warfare all the time.
    Cj Moore, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The United States has already learned a great deal about the future of warfare from Ukraine.
    Thomas Wright, Foreign Affairs, 24 Feb. 2025
  • And John Spencer, the head of urban warfare at West Point, says that no other army has faced such a task.
    CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The pace has ramped up, but Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been engaged in this type of warfare against the West for two decades.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Tech has always played a role in warfare, though some of Google’s workers would like it not to.
    Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
  • This unity comes at the price of warfare and death in Ukraine and enormous economic pain for the West.
    Evan Gershkovich, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
  • For years, experts have warned about the dangers of using AI in warfare.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The kill may also tell us something about the current state and future of tank warfare.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • One of the most difficult weapons to defend against in modern warfare is a tank.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
  • What are the chances that the ROI Act will make it through a congress drawn to standstill by partisan warfare?
    Wes Siler, Outside Online, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Looks like, on balance, Ukraine knows more about rules of warfare than russia.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • This was the first time in warfare that air evacuation was used to a large degree.
    Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • Carl’s abduction, which turns out to be a bit of class warfare, has given him P.T.S.D.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • The risks of this new form of economic warfare are immense to the global oil supply.
    Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2022
  • In warfare, there are two types of fire: direct and indirect fire.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But this week’s attacks by Russia mark the beginning of a dark new era for drone warfare in Ukraine.
    WIRED, 21 Oct. 2022
  • But then what is happening on the inside, because there's a lot of class warfare as well.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Class warfare is at a high, and many on the right are joining those on the left in disdain for economic achievement.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 13 Nov. 2021
  • But in the lead-up to Friday’s vote, both companies have been rocked by legal warfare.
    Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But they aren’t commonly used in warfare – and for good reason.
    Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Orr laughed when asked about the young linebacker’s affinity for padded warfare.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2024
  • But beneath the Dark Ages warrior exterior is an keen grasp of a new type of warfare.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The group responded with the escalation of drone and missile warfare against the U.S. and Israel.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025

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