How to use "war" in a sentence

After a year, we went to Vietnam to fight in the war

'She left school and went off with a group of people who were against the war,' he said.

He was against the war, like me, but he blew up buildings and things

I went to live with Moses, one of the other men in the group, and soon after that Jenny went to Washington to talk and work against the war

Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

In YOUR hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in MINE, is the momentous issue of civil war

all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war

While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war

insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war - seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish

And the war came.

All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war

To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained

He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope - fervently do we pray - that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away

It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing great - greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources.

I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis - broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

I was a war hero, you know - I saved an officer's life at Waterloo! And you call me a criminal! Well, I'm going to teach you a lesson.'

Minutes later, the sounds of war echoed across the whole city of Paris.

After two months of happiness with Cosette, he was now in the middle of a war

We all got involved, during the war

"But it reminds me of the war

"You two sound like you're in a war," Billy Sandstone said uneasily.

"Is there a war on? Have we invaded France?"

"Going to war, you might prefer a tank."

Elliot said, "But if racing to keep up with the Chinese - or the Russians or the Iraqis - can create situations like the one we've got here, where an innocent child gets ground up in the machine, then aren't we just becoming monsters too? Aren't we letting our fears of the enemy turn us into them? And isn't that just another way of losing the war?"

But when the South lost the war, and there was equality for black people, Uncle Elias left America

'Souvenir of the war.'

Destruction had never been so total in the history of war

There had never been such a large or fast movement of war equipment in England before.

A young Martian, we now know, was born on Earth during the war, and it was found growing out of the body of its parent, just like some young plants.

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.

Certainly, in all the bodies of the Martians that were examined after the war, no germs were found except ones that came from Earth

The war has broadened people's minds enormously

This is because of things like war, or because girls have to get married when they are very young

After leaving school, Rigoberta worked against human rights crimes by Guatemalan soldiers from 1960 to 1996, during a war in the country

At the same time, millions of men left their jobs to fight the war in Europe and other places

After the war ended and the men came home, more than 2 million women lost their jobs

This was because a lot of men did not come home from the war, so women had to work to look after their families.

The goals are there to stop people from being poor, to look after the Earth and to stop war