at war
Example Sentences
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"The constitution says we're not supposed to be at war without a vote of Congress," Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, a co-sponsor of the war resolution, told NPR.
From BBC
UK Middle East minister Hamish Falconer insisted the nation was "not at war".
From Barron's
South Korea has mounted a concerted push to build bridges with Pyongyang under President Lee Jae Myung, who has sought the "peaceful coexistence" of two nations still technically at war.
From Barron's
It is under extreme financial and economic pressure, and it is at war with its own people.
Ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Tuesday, the U.K.’s armed-forces minister, Alistair Carns, said Russia had been at war longer than in World War II and lost over 4,000 tanks, 10,000 armed vehicles and had its navy arguably destroyed by a country that never had a navy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
