How to Use hot war in a Sentence

hot war

noun

• Under the rigors of a live, hot war, these products break down.
  — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
• In the early nineteen-nineties, each of these conflicts became a hot war.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023
• Is Facebook ready or even willing to help during a hot war?
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
• Of all the intractable issues that could spark a hot war between the United States and China, Taiwan is at the very top of the list.
  — Brendan Rittenhouse Green, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2022
• Under the rigors of a live, hot war, commercial products break down.
  — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
• As 2022 dawns, however, a more pressing crisis has come to the fore: the unexpected prospect of a hot war in Europe.
  — M.e. Sarotte, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• The experts assumed that this would soon change, and that they’d be mobilized in a hot war against malevolent fakers.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Wednesday, Biden suggested the U.S. might soon be in a hot war with nuclear-armed Russia.
  — Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 8 Apr. 2022
• As arguably the first hot war of the cold war, Korea was a proving ground for the US military and America’s sphere of influence.
  — Lauren Kane, The New York Review of Books, 14 May 2022
• But a cold war, or a hot war, with a major foreign debt holder would be problematic.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2021
• That effort starts in Ukraine, where a hot war has been underway in the east for five years, and a cyberwar underway in the capital, Kiev.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
• The Court of the 1960s clearly believed that the United States people could deal with Communist propaganda, even during the hot war of that time.
  — Anupam Chander, Wired, 21 Sep. 2020
• But Sternberg plays out a Cold War pantomime that parallels the hot war of male–female relations.
  — Armond White, National Review, 8 June 2022
• And now it’s about urging the administration to prevent us from stumbling into a hot war.
  — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
• The concert worked well when members’ core interests aligned, but when the conservative consensus cracked, so did the concert, which erupted in a hot war over Crimea in 1853.
  — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Ships and shore stations suspended preparations and training for the Korean hot war for a day in honor of fallen buddies.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2022
• Russia is waging two wars right now: a hot war with Ukraine whose costs are measured in death and destruction, and a cold war with the West whose costs are measured in economic hardship and inflation.
  — WSJ, 30 June 2022
• These moves would risk explicitly drawing the United States into the conflict and drawing us closer to a hot war between the world's two largest nuclear powers.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• When the occupant of the White House and the sycophants surrounding him are prepared to use anything, including real-world battles — trade wars and hot wars — to win a political battle at home, nothing and no one is safe.
  — Robert Reich, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2018
• Russia’s strongman has sent an alarming buildup of troops and weaponry to the front lines with Ukraine—an escalation that threatens the renewal of a hot war in Europe, with America and Russia on opposing sides.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2021
• The planet, Urras, is a lot like ours: beautiful, capitalistic, unequal, and filled with nations in continuous cold and hot wars.
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• This is particularly difficult in a hot war situation, like Ukraine, where weapons can go from concept to turners of the tide in a matter of weeks, and the other side must quickly invent countermeasures—or lose the war.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2023
• Reagan fought and won a cold war because even a successful hot war might have resulted in the annihilation of a significant portion of our population.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022
• On their own, these proposals are thoughtful and mostly reasonable, and avoiding a hot war between great powers is understandably Doyle’s overarching goal.
  — Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• Capitulation might be worth a try if the only alternatives were a catastrophic hot war or an endless and financially crippling cold war.
  — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Unlike in 1962, a hot war is already raging over territory that one side considers important to its national interest, and the other knows is necessary to its national survival.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2022
• Like the first Cold War, a second would have disastrous consequences for the world: arms races, proxy wars, an inability to address pressing global concerns of security and inequality, and a looming risk of deterioration into a hot war.
  — Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• This will require hard tradeoffs, but a hot war that directly involves U.S. forces will be far more expensive; protecting American national security and lives through effective deterrence is worth the sacrifice of lesser domestic priorities.
  — Daniel Twining, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024