go to war
Example Sentences
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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
Bush asked for authorization to go to war as soon as Congress convened, which began an extended and torturous debate.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026
What was it that crystallized and suddenly it was necessary to go to war?
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026
“He would go to war, if King Uther declared one. Do you know that Homo sapiens is almost the only animal which wages war?”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
