Sample Sentences for
armistice
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  • We might send a battle fleet to sea and fire a few shots before the armistice.  (source)
  • Truce negotiators kept tempers in check today as they wrangled fruitlessly over terms of a Korean armistice.  (source)
    armistice = agreement to temporarily stop fighting a war
  • "It was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the Armistice," he continued.  (source)
    Armistice = agreement to stop fighting a war
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  • "The armistice, the end of World War One," Finn answered.  (source)
    armistice = agreement to stop fighting a war
  • The vase was respected not for Horoldt's mastery of polychrome enamels or the blue and gold interlacing strapwork and foliage, but for Uncle Clem, and the lives he had saved, the river he had crossed at midnight, and his death just a week before the Armistice.  (source)
  • Break the armistice immediately and march on the enemy.  (source)
    armistice = agreement to temporarily stop fighting a war
  • Mrs. Glegg felt there was really something in this, but she tossed her head and emitted a guttural interjection to indicate that her silence was only an armistice, not a peace.  (source)
    armistice = temporary agreement to stop fighting a war
  • Today's edition of the New York Times was lying on an attending table, its cover announcing, "UN Security Council Issues Cyber-Armistice and Forgiveness."†  (source)
  • She spoke a few soft words to Dilcey who nodded kindly, as though an unspoken armistice existed in their old feud.†  (source)
  • Some of us went to Philly to try and march in an Armistice Day parade.†  (source)
  • The Tuesday of the armistice dawned warm and rainy.†  (source)
  • "The great all-embracing, absolute Armistice, the end of the world!" he said.†  (source)
  • It was Nately's father's idea that he join the Air Corps, where he could train safely as a pilot while the Russians capitulated and the details of the armistice were worked out, and where, as an officer, he would associate only with gentlemen.†  (source)
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