Married couples live in a state of perpetual war, broken occasionally by an armed truce.

In fact, the two sides settled down to what seemed more like an armed truce than a war.

Since that time, both planets had remained in a state of armed truce.

Why now, of all times, had he suddenly breached the armed truce?

An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

Both were devastated before the war became an armed truce.

She and her husband had reached an armed truce: he could do his own laundry but was to leave hers alone.

For the next thirty years, France found itself in a state of either civil war or armed truce.

Horses and I can enjoy an armed truce while they are in harness.

However, it is little more than an armed truce; as neither trusts the other to any great extent.