How to Use civil war in a Sentence

civil war

noun

• The country is on the brink of civil war.
• That’s a part of the world that has had a very tough time in a civil war.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2023
• On to a 10th ballot, the most since just before the civil war.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• The Indian state of Manipur is on the verge of civil war.
  — Time, 13 July 2023
• The vessel was abandoned after the outbreak of the Yemeni civil war in 2015.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 28 July 2023
• There are people in this country who claim to want a civil war.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
• But when civil war broke out there in 2002, the father of her two children was killed.
  — John Johnston, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2022
• After all, this civil war within the Targaryen clan did come to be known as the Dance of the Dragons.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• That conflict followed years of civil war that had already pushed the country to the brink.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• The Syrian civil war has been going on for now a dozen years.
  — ABC News, 12 Feb. 2023
• Once in power, Napoleon sought to ameliorate the effects of the French civil war.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• The trailer opens with scenes of destruction in the U.S., along with news reports about the civil war playing in the background.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• Her parents fled El Salvador about a year after her birth in the 1980s to escape the civil war.
  — Daniel Eduardo Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
• Western forces joined the White Russians in their civil war against the Bolsheviks.
  — Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• One of the best predictors of civil wars is whether a country has had a civil war within the last five years.
  — Michael Allen, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• Elon Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ as UK rocked by far-right riots.
  — Reuters, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• Taiwan, which split from the mainland in 1949 during a civil war, is claimed by China.
  — Huizhong Wu, ajc, 27 Dec. 2022
• Cole’s work on the effects of civil war in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
  — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• The two sides have been ruled by separate governments since 1949, after the end of the Chinese civil war.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
• Prosecutors said the men's goal was to ignite a civil war.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 27 Dec. 2022
• Set in Burma, also known as Myanmar, the film is set against the country's long-raging civil war.
  — Justine Browning, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• Kosiah was the first Liberian convicted of war crimes dating from the first civil war.
  — Sylvie Corbet, ajc, 2 Nov. 2022
• It was quickly realized and most agreed that the upcoming civil war over the throne would not be fought among men on the ground as much as dragons in the air.
  — Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
• Prosecutors said the men were seeking to inspire a U.S. civil war known as the boogaloo.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• The sect had once ruled Yemen for centuries but was marginalized under the Sunni regime that came to power after a 1962 civil war.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023
• Some Saudi leaders may even see a civil war as useful in weakening the Houthis, as long as Riyadh can stay out of the fighting.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
• The two have been on opposing sides in Syria's civil war but in recent months have launched low-level talks.
  — Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2022
• Hamas took it over after a short, sharp civil war with the Palestinian party Fatah in 2007.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Throughout this year, Israeli leaders had warned of civil war.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• Any confrontation would be a recipe for civil war, since a significant portion of the army is Shiites.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024