How to Use alliance in a Sentence

alliance

noun
  • There is disagreement within the alliance about how to deal with this problem.
  • There has been a pattern of shifting alliances in the political world.
  • We need to form a closer alliance between government and industry.
  • The article condemns what some say is an unholy alliance between government and media.
  • The keys are used to buy luxuries, woo potential romantic partners and build alliances, all in a bid to unlock a lifechanging fortune.
    Peter White, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The United States and Japan have been working in recent years to strengthen their military alliance.
    Edward Wong, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Microsoft just forged a strategic alliance with a major solar panel manufacturer to try to make good on its clean energy goals.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Last year, that alliance helped Councilmember Jessie Lopez defeat a recall attempt where she was outspent 8-1.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The group has a close alliance with the Afghan Taliban, now ruling Afghanistan, but operates independently.
    Haq Nawaz Khan, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2023
  • At the end of the day, my own alliance turned on me and voted me out.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 July 2021
  • The two groups are in an alliance against Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
    SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • This was often the rhythm of such alliances in those days.
    Lynn Freed, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • If the alliance crumbles, buyers will be among the losers.
    Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2020
  • The two have remained in contact, and the alliance led to these practices.
    cleveland, 19 Aug. 2021
  • That means there's a decent amount of talk about the future of the alliance at the beginning of the episode.
    Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • To be one of the young guys on the way up, its pretty awesome just to be a small part of this alliance.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Ankara, however, hasn't always been a thorn in the side of the alliance.
    Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 29 June 2022
  • And then there’s the unholy alliance of toilet seats and food.
    Nora Taylor, Curbed, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But one of the alliance members got burned this week in a scene that never made it to TV.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Macalester, which is in St. Paul, is one of six founding members of the new alliance.
    Ryan Faircloth, Star Tribune, 10 Nov. 2020
  • So much for Josh's promise, and so much for that vet alliance.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • June and the Lawrences need to get out — which is what makes their alliance so possible and so thrilling.
    Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
  • To the English, this alliance was the first glimmer of hope that their weak colony might survive.
    National Geographic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Their old allies hate them, and their new alliance doesn’t trust them.
    Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • By 2019, none was left to oppose the alliance with Ben-Gvir’s Kahanists.
    Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The Northwest Arkansas Food Bank is part of the alliance.
    Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The two men were at odds, and Polyperchon knew an alliance with Olympias could be useful.
    National Geographic, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Nielsen is among the entities that have struck an alliance with EDO.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • The deal, which was brokered by China, isn’t an alliance.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2023
  • An alliance that proved to be only as good as the paper it wasn’t printed on.
    oregonlive, 29 July 2022

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