How to Use armistice in a Sentence

armistice

noun

• The armistice ending World War I was signed the next day.
  — David Motadel, The New York Review of Books, 26 Feb. 2020
• In 1953 the two countries signed an armistice but not a peace treaty.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 10 July 2019
• Yet while the armistice was agreed the war never ended to this day.
  — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 12 June 2018
• The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 marked the end of the Great War — the moment the armistice was signed by the Allies and Germany.
  — Austin Hewitt, Baltimore Sun, 30 Oct. 2022
• What was signed in 1953 was only an armistice, or truce.
  — Jon Herskovitz, Fortune, 20 June 2019
• In the end, nukes weren't needed: An armistice was signed in July 1953.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 12 Oct. 2022
• This has languished since the 1950s as an armistice and should be part of any package.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
• The conflict was halted by a 1953 armistice but no peace treaty has been signed.
  — Bruce Harrison, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2018
• Even so, sooner or later, the war will end in a cease-fire or armistice.
  — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 19 May 2022
• The year is 1918, and the armistice is just around the corner, but no one on the front line can possibly know that yet.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2024
• Of course, North Korea would have to agree and, as a party to the armistice, so would China.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
• In 1949, control of the city was divided as part of an armistice.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• The 1,111 flags are to represent when the armistice treaty ending World War I was signed.
  — Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
• Three failed cease-fires in as many weeks make the future of the new armistice uncertain.
  — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020
• In fact, a new armistice seems to be emerging around the science itself.
  — Carol Cruzan Morton, oregonlive, 28 Nov. 2020
• They, and the promise of many more, compelled Germany to accept an armistice at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 9 Apr. 2017
• These were paid for by the French themselves in onerous costs set by the armistice agreement.
  — Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
• The year saw the armistice signed, signaling an end to the First World War, and the formation of Yugoslavia.
  — cleveland.com, 2 Jan. 2018
• This isn't even an armistice, merely a cease fire at the advantage to Hamas.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
• He was scheduled to be shipped overseas when the armistice was declared.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
• The conflict was halted by a 1953 armistice but no peace treaty was ever signed.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2018
• To her credit, Peters put her own boots on the ground in Europe after the armistice.
  — Michelle Stacey, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024
• No peace treaty has been signed to replace the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.
  — NBC News, 18 Apr. 2018
• The vaunted French army, one of the world’s largest, was overwhelmed by the onslaught, and France signed an armistice six weeks later.
  — Michael F. Bishop, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• But two years after the armistice was declared, Europe was still not at peace.
  — NBC News, 12 July 2021
• A week later, the war ended with an armistice and a German defeat.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
• This resulted in a 1953 armistice that has frozen the conflict in place for more than seven decades.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2023
• The two Koreas fought a war that ended in 1953 with an armistice but without a peace treaty.
  — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2017
• This region, now a line of division, was the site of the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War.
  — Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• The Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice, and no peace treaty has ever been signed.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024