go to war

Example Sentences

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In L.A.’s high-stakes rental market, where tenants and landlords regularly go to war over housing disputes, renters have filed more than 115,000 complaints to the city Housing Department since 2013.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

You hire him when you’ve decided to go to war, and prepare to fight all the way to the Supreme Court.

From Salon • May 13, 2026

Instead, he delivers his hair-raising message—that we’re staring at “a humiliating and bloody defeat” if we go to war with China—in a jaunty, clever and sometimes breathless book.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"It's not that we want to go to war, but if we don't want to go to war, who will?"

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

There was a man known as Hig Phillips down in the southern part of the county, and the story came out that he had hired a substitute to go to war for him.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt