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
• How much does the civil war there play to them, give them space?
  — CBS News, 11 May 2022
• On to a 10th ballot, the most since just before the civil war.
  — Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• The Fadels paid summer visits to Beirut, a city in the grip of civil war.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2022
• Piers’ return pushed the country to the brink of civil war.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
• The Indian state of Manipur is on the verge of civil war.
  — Time, 13 July 2023
• But for now, choose which side of the Targaryen civil war to join — or to simply buy up.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 June 2022
• 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
• Macron argued that such a move would foment a civil war.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Experts tell us that a civil war might be around the corner, or that one is already here.
  — Timothy Shenk, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
• Rail traffic in Syria screeched to a halt after the outbreak of its civil war in 2011.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2022
• The sparks threatened to catch fire on far-right social media, where there was open talk of civil war.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022
• Beasts of No Nation follows a brutal civil war in Africa through the eyes of a child soldier.
  — Meg Walters, EW.com, 11 May 2022
• 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
• Cregan will likely become Lord of Winterfell by the time of the civil war.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2022
• The other big news to come out of this week besides Robyn’s murder and the Traitors civil war was the Bambi alliance turning on each other.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
• At the end of its civil war, Lebanon opted to issue a blanket pardon for all atrocities committed during the 15-year conflict.
  — Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 12 Mar 2025