How to Use internecine in a Sentence

internecine

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• The internecine strife in Texas wasn’t limited to Trump and the state lawmakers.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
• But that isn’t the only development in the internecine fight for control of the Pac-12.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
• These are the types of internecine battles that could trip up Democrats’ march to the majority.
  — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
• Ms Nahles, a veteran of party intrigue, tried to soldier on in the face of internecine plots.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• Others who had the capacity to lead couldn't make the time, or were turned off by internecine squabbling.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 18 Oct. 2017
• The abduction will be pinned on a rival cartel, resulting in an internecine war: bring on the worst of times.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 July 2017
• To this day, Libya remains trapped in a Hobbesian hell of internecine warfare and lawlessness.
  — Max Boot, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2023
• And there are signs that other militias are getting over internecine conflicts and aligning against the junta.
  — Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
• To Egypt’s west is Libya’s never-ending conflict, and to its south, Sudan’s internecine bloodshed.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• With the rise of populist movements in the U.S. and Europe, a kind of internecine warfare has broken out among writers and thinkers of a conservative cast of mind.
  — Richard Aldous, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• But the strike managed to highlight both sides’ persistent internecine warfare, as well.
  — Vulture, 13 Nov. 2023
• This vacuum has, as is often the case with this White House, triggered fierce internecine scrapping among those vying for Trump's ear.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2018
• This vacuum has, as is often the case with this White House, triggered fierce internecine scrapping among those vying for Mr. Trump’s ear.
  — Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2018
• The decisions are there for the making up and down the ballot as each party undergoes an internecine struggle between its left and right wings.
  — Peggy Fikac, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2018
• Tatarsky’s killing added to a growing list of opaque, internecine battles on the sidelines of the war in Ukraine, for which neither side has claimed responsibility.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023
• Its message, as the shadow of terrorism encroaches: while an internecine war raged in the halls of power, Americans were on their own.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 28 Feb. 2018
• During that time, her three suggestions to read a passage aloud had all died, and her son and grandson became embroiled in an internecine war about her care and fortune.
  — Mark Peikert, Town & Country, 11 Apr. 2023
• And the internecine battle among macronutrients is only heating up.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 20 July 2019
• Qatar hosts a major U.S. air base and America has little use for an internecine conflict between its Arab partners.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 10 July 2017
• That set the stage for an internecine battle between the Archdiocese, which claimed ownership on all assets belonging to the Sisters.
  — Peter Kiefer, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2017
• But in El Akkad's dystopian vision, those differences have led, once again, to secession and internecine warfare.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
• But in El Akkad’s dystopian vision, those differences have led, once again, to secession and internecine warfare.
  — Ron Charles, The Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2017
• Uber conducted the leadership search as it was shaken by internecine fighting on the company’s board.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2017
• McMaster has not been as fortunate as Mattis in avoiding the White House’s internecine squabbles.
  — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2017
• The ferocity and scale of the violence have drawn comparisons to Somalia, which collapsed amid bitter internecine strife in the 1990s.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• Sure, there are some fights — most of them internecine, as various X-Men start to doubt the leadership of Charles, a powerful clairvoyant who is revealed to have tinkered with Jean’s mind as a child.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
• Sure, there are some fights – most of them internecine, as various X-Men start to doubt the leadership of Charles, a powerful clairvoyant who is revealed to have tinkered with Jean’s mind as a child.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 7 June 2019
• The show, as concerns the internecine politics of Hollywood itself, also whiffed of regression: Gone was the anger that had animated the 2018 show.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2020
• With the Democratic convention approaching and just four months to Election Day, neither camp in the party can much afford this internecine drama much longer.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Twin Cities, 6 July 2024
• Cárdenas and Padilla, by contrast, created their empire in a less-Latino area within a generation, making sure to clip any potential internecine drama — or push out those who got in the way.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024