TRUCE in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for TRUCE, such as:
1. They agreed to call a truce.
2. Let no kindness nor truce be between the nations.
3. Our enemy has greatly strengthened during the truce talks.
4. The fighting of recent days has given way to an uneasy truce between the two sides.
5. Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce.
2. Let no kindness nor truce be between the nations.
3. Our enemy has greatly strengthened during the truce talks.
4. The fighting of recent days has given way to an uneasy truce between the two sides.
5. Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce.
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Meanings and Examples of TRUCE
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truce
n. a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 "I am speaking ze truce," replied the hussar with a smile.
2 Murat declared that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
3 Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce.
4 Bagration replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutuzov to report the offer he had received.
5 The offer of a truce gave the only, and a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army.
6 At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts.
7 They talk to us of the rules of war, of chivalry, of flags of truce, of mercy to the unfortunate and so on.
8 He's a nice man, General Hood, and I know I could make him give me an escort and a flag of truce to get me through the lines.
9 There was a truce in the kitchen and no sound of quarreling from Peter, Mammy and Cookie floated up to her.
10 There was a corporeal humility in looking up at him; and a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress.
11 The truce still existed, and with a roll and beat of the drum, and covered by a little white flag, Duncan left the sally-port, within ten minutes after his instructions were ended.
12 The instant Uncas had struck the blow, he moved out of the circle, and cast his eyes up to the sun, which was just gaining the point, when the truce with Magua was to end.
13 Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce.
14 Let no kindness nor truce be between the nations.
15 Third is Eurytion, thy brother, O Pandarus, great in renown, thou who of old, when prompted to shatter the truce, didst hurl the first shaft amid the Achaeans.
Example Sentence:
1 She would willingly forgo a birthday treat if only her warring parents would declare a truce.
2 They agreed to call a truce.
3 Our enemy has greatly strengthened during the truce talks.
4 The fighting of recent days has given way to an uneasy truce between the two sides.
5 To put it in a different context, if the Taliban proposed a long term truce in Afghanistan, would US officials give it serious thought?