How to Use allied in a Sentence

allied

adjective
  • Many of the ships photographed appeared in poor condition, particularly next to allied ships.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Match the top travel nurses and allied health professionals in facilities across the country.
    Sonia Chopra, Cincinnati.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Conversations in allied capitals led to a palpable shift.
    Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The spread of that network means that Iran could rely on allied forces to strike at any number of places while giving Iran a way to deny responsibility.
    Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2020
  • After D-Day and the draining Normandy drive, allied troops sweeping across the continent believed the worst was behind them.
    Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Soleimani was not seen as a hero only in Iran, but was also by Iranian-allied groups in the region - including in Yemen and Lebanon.
    Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • At least 250 people have been killed by the authorities and their allied militias since the turmoil began on October 1st.
    The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The allied countries have been in talks on the matter for months.
    Reuters, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This allied approach works with stress in much the same way.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The Allied soldiers who weren’t killed limped back from the defeat.
    Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The allied forces must always let China make the first move.
    Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
  • With the aid of allied politicians, the NRA has kept the amendment and related riders in place.
    Will Van Sant, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • But that allied force must be able to make good use of the intelligence the F-35s collect.
    David Axe, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • His team played a vital, long-secret role in Allied success in the war.
    Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
  • There is an allied reason why that type of adornment works.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Nursing would merge with allied health and the fine arts, my school, will be absorbed by arts and sciences.
    Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The code was never broken and the Code Talkers were credited with helping the allied forces win the war.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The attacks marked one of the single deadliest days for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in the 20 years since the allied invasion.
    Melissa Quinn, Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Germany is one of the world’s largest arms exporters and ships weapons to non-allied countries such as Egypt or Pakistan.
    Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The United States has banned the import or sale of Huawei’s telecom-network gear and has urged allied nations not to use it.
    Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Even with the 33 seats that the far-right Vox got and the one seat going to an allied party, the PP was still seven seats short of a majority.
    Joseph Wilson and Ciarán Giles, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2023
  • Thus far, support for Ukraine has proved durable among allied nations.
    Elliot Ackerman, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Yet the question of a gas embargo is part of a wider long-term challenge to the allied pressure campaign against Mr. Putin.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Code Talkers were credited with helping the allied forces win the war and have been seen as heroes ever since.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The 3,000 will bolster allied forces in Germany, Poland and Romania.
    Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Otto urged Rhaenyra to pick someone from an allied house, but Criston comes from a more humble background as the son of a steward.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 Aug. 2022
  • But Iran has 31 provinces and authorities haven't taken the step to lock down the country like in the allied nations of Iraq and Lebanon.
    NBC News, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The Allied invasion of Sicily was now only three weeks away.
    Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Ukrainian president also compared the current war to the allied efforts to defeat the Nazis.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • Through the centuries, notebooks and allied forms such as sketchbooks have been indispensable tools for merchants, writers, artists, scientists, and everyday people.
    The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024

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