How to Use intercommunal in a Sentence

intercommunal

adjective
  • Symbols of the lack of hope and the cycle of intercommunal violence are many.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Anger over the spiraling conflict has sparked deadly protests in the occupied West Bank and a wave of intercommunal violence in Israel.
    NBC News, 16 May 2021
  • Meanwhile, vicious intercommunal fighting in parts of South Sudan has killed hundreds of people this year.
    Maura Ajak, Star Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The recent wave of Arab-Jewish clashes within Israel was the most serious outbreak of intercommunal unrest since that time.
    NBC News, 22 May 2021
  • Arabs and Jews in Lod and elsewhere turned on each other with a rage that shocked many Israelis and left them fearful that the country’s intercommunal relations had been permanently altered, if not sundered.
    Washington Post, 26 May 2021
  • Many of his stories drench the murderous absurdities of intercommunal strife in bitter irony.
    Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The battle for power between Sudan’s top two generals has reignited intercommunal violence in the country’s Darfur region, a gold-rich area still scarred by what is widely considered the first genocide of the 21st century.
    Nicholas Bariyo, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
  • Yet the Israeli political situation is so atrophied that public opinion appears to have been barely moved by the conflict with Hamas or the eruption of intercommunal violence in mixed Arab and Jewish cities across the country.
    Hadas Gold, CNN, 26 May 2021
  • And in a very interesting time, because in the most recent conflict, there was terrible intercommunal violence that really shocked most Israelis.
    CBS News, 23 June 2021
  • Now ethnic tensions and intercommunal violence are posing a growing challenge to his reforms.
    Elias Meseret, Star Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The subsequent outbreak of intercommunal violence in cities with large Arab-Israeli populations is a reminder of Israel’s pressing domestic challenges.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 May 2021

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