How to Use allied in a Sentence

allied

adjective
  • In the months leading up to the Normandy invasion, targets up and down the French coastline were bombed and strafed by allied airpower.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • Pelosi also attended the ceremonies in France to mark the 75th anniversary of the allied invasion.
    Time, 8 June 2019
  • Harris appeared to have the superior ground game in Arizona, with her campaign and allied groups, like unions, working efficiently to knock on doors and turn out voters.
    The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Justice Democrats and allied groups are focusing this year on targeting moderate Democrats in safe blue districts, rather than emphasizing trying to win swing seats.
    NBC News, 18 June 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
  • Now one of them—or its wreckage, at least—is in Ukrainian and allied hands.
    David Axe, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • 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 men and women in it, mostly Air Force but some from allied countries, guard the highest of high grounds: space.
    The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • 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
  • Lam and his fellow Chinese naval officers supported the Allied troops on the beaches from one of the British ships off the French coast.
    Peter Guo, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Biden’s strategy of slowly dispensing allied weapons stocks telegraphs to U.S. adversaries the limits of Washington’s support and the fragility of its commitment to Kyiv’s success.
    Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024

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