"war" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The war pitted two of South America's poorest countries, both having previously lost territories to neighbors in wars during the 19th century.
- This war pitted the nobles of the north of France against those of the south.
- Similar to other range wars in the Old West, the war pitted cattlemen against sheepherders.
- The war pitted a reformed Austrian army against a collection of French veterans and conscripts.
- The war against international terrorism has pitted us against a new kind of enemy that wages terror in new and unconventional ways.
- It obscures the central fact that a civil war within Islam is pitting zealous fanatics against increasingly intimidated moderates.
- It is the epicenter of a separatist war pitting impoverished nomads against one of the biggest armies in Africa.
- The war, which began in 1960, pitted a rightist military-controlled Government against a classic Latin American left-wing insurgency.
- (That war pitted the old-fashioned sound-it-out approach against a newer, "whole language" method emphasizing the story over the syllables.)
- The ensuing civil war pitted Cleopatra's city of Alexandria against the rest of the country, who supported Physcon.
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