How to Use anti-war in a Sentence

anti-war

adjective
  • Democrats embraced the emerging coalitions from the anti-war and Civil Rights marches while ditching their Dixiecrat roots.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Brandeis has historically seen anti-war protests during major conflicts like the Vietnam War.
    Justin Klawans, theweek, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s inspired her.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The exchange, at least in the short term, means those anti-war voices are exiled, and not a threat to the system.
    Nathan Hodge, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Still, could the war in Ukraine inspire the Academy to honor this anti-war film?
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Many of the roughly 150 people there are wearing fuschia in honor of Code Pink, the anti-war group hosting the event.
    TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Our position is anti-war — there is no room for any gray zones.
    Stjepan Hundic, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2023
  • White, male, Christian, anti-war, an enemy to the Biden regime.
    CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In Yefremov, Russia, a 13-year-old girl drew an anti-war picture in school.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Around the world, thousands took to the streets to join anti-war demonstrations with record attendances.
    Gary Grimes, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Ellsberg spent much of the rest of his life as prominent anti-war activist.
    Conor Murray, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The crowd cheered, but in the 1960s the boxer had been criticized for his religious beliefs and anti-war stance.
    Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • My parents were very involved in the anti-war movement and the anti-nuke movement.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2024
  • That song was among the emotional highlights of the concert, as anti-war images flooded the video screen.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Yet McCloskey stood in front of the Capitol to address throngs of angry young anti-war marchers in October of 1969.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 18 May 2024
  • Yes, Avis and Stanley become involved in the anti-war movement.
    Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Walton’s involvement with civic unrest and the anti-war protests at UCLA will also be part of the series.
    oregonlive, 2 May 2023
  • Mikhail says his boss forced him to quit his job because parents complained about his public anti-war stance.
    Rosa Flores, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • DeWitt, a longtime anti-war activist and advocate for the unhoused, flew to Texas in 2018 with a friend for a protest rally in McAllen.
    Palabra, al, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Richard Nixon enraged the anti-war masses without even showing up.
    Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 4 July 2023
  • One talk show compared Carlson’s visit to Jane Fonda’s anti-war trip to Vietnam in 1972.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The arrests marked the first time the university has called the cops on student protesters since 1968, during anti-war protests against the Vietnam War.
    Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The director of The Zone of Interest accepted his award with an anti-war speech that drew praise and confusion.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • She was arrested for anti-war posts on social media, the BBC reports.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Blockading roads is not a new tactic: Suffragettes, civil rights activists, and anti-war activists have all blocked roads in past decades.
    Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2023
  • That spring, the US had withdrawn the last of its troops from Vietnam, and anti-war anger remained palpable on college campuses.
    Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • Nevertheless, there is so far no groundswell of anti-war protest, apart from a small contingent of military moms and wives.
    Nina Shea, National Review, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Both stand as unconventional anti-war films in their own ways.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 June 2023
  • What must that official think of this movie, which deploys fantasy to present a powerful anti-war stance?
    Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The musicians fear they’ve been targeted for their anti-war stance, according to their defense team.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2024

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