How to Use the Allies in a Sentence

the Allies

plural noun

• The dive bombers provided shock effect to make up for the German lack of tanks compared to the Allies.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• The family was just a few miles from safety, from the chunk of Italy occupied by the Allies.
  — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
• They were stunned that the Allies had succeeded in so little time.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
• But the end of the war was on the horizon, and the Allies liberated Amsterdam in May 1945.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
• What the Allies did were acts of war in the service of a lasting peace, not genocide in the service of a fanatical aim.
  — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• By the spring of 1945, with Germany defeated, the Allies turned to an obdurate Japan.
  — Peter Englund, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• In 1944, with the Allies approaching, the Germans removed Pétain (who didn’t want to go) from France.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Taken as a prisoner of war, he was held for only 22 hours as the Allies pressed their advance.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024
• Back at base on D-Day night, he was told the Allies had suffered thousands of casualties.
  — John Leicester, TIME, 4 June 2024
• The gas had come from the Allies’ own munitions; it was being delivered to the front for potential use against the Germans.
  — Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• Four days earlier, the Allies had landed on the beaches of Normandy in the D-Day invasion.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• Mohammed welcomed the Allies with open arms and sent Moroccan troops to continue the fight.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• As the Allies approached in 1945, prisoners were sent on a death march, but Catherine managed to escape.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
• None of their ships or boats could get close enough to the shore without being detected, so the Allies needed miniature submarines—and divers.
  — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
• Casualties were so heavy the Allies never conducted a major landing for the rest of the war.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
• On the other hand, casualties were lighter than expected, and the beachheads allowed the Allies to pour in men and equipment.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
• The plane's mission, in support of the D-Day aftermath, was to soften German positions as the Allies advanced.
  — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
• Yet pessimistic headlines and disappointing, even costly, setbacks did not cause the Allies to give up.
  — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
• Hood himself was a left-winger and a soldier, famed for his fighting in Italy, as well as being the officer in charge of debriefing Jünger after he was captured by the Allies.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• If the Allies risked it anyway, but the skies did not clear enough for airborne troops to make their jumps or for Allied warplanes to protect the beachheads, an onrush of German tanks could crush the toeholds on French sand.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024
• There was less fighting than the Allies expected, and though some lives were tragically lost, before noon the French flag was once again flying above the Eiffel Tower.
  — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• Lajos was imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen and died shortly after the Allies liberated the camp.
  — Lily Meyer, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• To advance across Europe and into Germany, the Allies also needed a reliable tank.
  — Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023
• Less than a year had passed since Japan’s surrender to the Allies; a few days prior, the tribunal’s chief prosecutor had handed down a 55-count indictment of Japan’s wartime military and civilian leaders.
  — Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
• Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust, ordered a commander on Alderney to kill his prisoners if the Allies invaded.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• One man named Horace Cameron Wright started plotting out the holes in the Allies’ understanding of lung injuries from underwater explosions.
  — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
• Because the Allies granted themselves immunity from war crimes charges, the tribunals were criticized as victors’ justice.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 18 June 2024
• Many of us see Israel’s war against Hamas as the same battle (albeit on a smaller scale, at least at this point) that took place between the Allies and the Nazis, even down to their tyrannical totalitarianism and their virulent antisemitism.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
• On that momentous day, it was determined whether the Allies, who had assembled the largest amphibious force in history, would successfully establish a beachhead on the Normandy coast of France.
  — Eric Hogan, National Review, 6 June 2023
• Yet on a different level, Ed appreciates the Allies’ scrupulous adherence to the highest legal standards.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 27 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024