truce
IPA: trˈus
noun
- A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
- An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
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Examples of "truce" in Sentences
- The truce was rejected by the rebels.
- But the truce was rejected by the rebels.
- It was five days after the start of the truce.
- To day was the seventeenth anniversary of the truce.
- An embassy to England reconfirmed the truce with Henry.
- With the end of the truce, the rebellion again erupted.
- The Greek and the Trojans make a truce to bury the dead.
- Fighting resumed immediately following the end of the truce.
- The armies made a temporary truce to allow the burial of the dead.
- In the morning, a counterattack forced the Germans to ask for a truce.
- The sources said al Qaeda has offered what they termed a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- The sources said Al Qaida has offered what they termed a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- With each flare-up, it is clear that the term truce has taken on a diplomatic meaning distinct from actual events on the ground.
- I. iii.262 (35,4) long continu'd truce] Of this long _truce_ there has been no notice taken; in this very act it is said, that _Ajax coped
- The HCR bill and upcoming energy, climate and immigration issues as well as civil rights for gays, assumes that a truce is possible in this war.
- And I think Hamas knows that destroying Israel is not something they're ever going to be able to accomplish, and they've talked openly about being receptive to a long term truce, which is already a concession from that 1988 charter document.
- "On the 30th of August, the States expressed their readiness to agree to a long truce, provided, the adverse party 'would _so absolutely acknowledge them for free countries, as that it should not be questioned after the expiration of the truce_, that otherwise they could not listen to a truce.'
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