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.