make war
Example Sentences
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“Lego-style imagery can make war and suffering look more familiar, more shareable and less graphic than they really are,” says Butler.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
He could defend himself, issue the order for Crimson Sky, make war on Osaka, declare himself shogun — but he won’t.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
His uncompromising hostility toward revolutionaries inspired Thomas Paine to remark in 1776, “Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families.”
From National Geographic • Jul. 3, 2023
They and the policies they devise may make war more or less likely, but structures don’t determine everything, nor do academic theories about those structures.
From Slate • Nov. 21, 2022
The song blames the people who make war happen.”
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
