Synonym: armistice, break, intermission, interruption, interval, pause, peace, recess, respite, rest. Similar words: spruce up, truck, struck, instruct, obstruct, structure, truculent, construct. Meaning: [truːs] n. a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms.
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61. An uneasy truce has been declared in the bloody two-year conflict.
62. Hector said they both knew you were going to break the truce yourself in the spring anyway.
63. It was as if an uneasy truce had been called.
64. Ambulances and stretcher-bearers moved about the field-staying close, however, to the Union lines, for no truce existed.
65. For most people at Cu Chi, the traditional Tet truce was anticipated as a welcome respite.
66. Without a political settlement any truce in Bosnia remains precarious.
67. The reformers in the government temporarily won a truce, between themselves and the students as well as with the conservatives.
68. Both sides agreed on a truce during New Year celebrations.
69. But it may also be an uneasy truce, which can only be sustained as long as certain questions are not asked.
70. As for wartime political activity, this was naturally inhibited for all the main parties by the electoral truce.
71. He seemed more concerned to break than maintain the shaky truce existing between him and his father.
72. But after a hurriedly arranged meeting, involving the national gipsy council, an uneasy truce was reached.
73. The attack was timed to coincide with the Tet holi-day and its traditional truce.
74. Round about the Elephant and Castle I decided to call a truce and talk to him.
75. It was an uneasy truce, however, with clear signs of tension persisting.
76. Let's call a truce.
77. When Eisenhower took office in January 1953, the truce talks were stalled on the question of prisoner-of-war repatriation.
78. For some viruses, the war between host and parasite gives way to truce.
79. The truce has not stopped combat in the civil war.
80. The fragile truce between rival rebel factions in the Solomon Islands came under threat after a third rebel group entered the conflict.
81. So much for the truce, painstakingly pieced together by Bill Clinton and his unique brand of insomnia diplomacy.
82. A truce of sorts lasted until a month ago when the Gabrielsens revoked the agreement, their legal right under its provisions.
83. The truce of Tours marked the beginning of another brief phase of diplomacy.
84. It can, as in snails,(http://sentencedict.com/truce.html) lead to victory or to defeat; or to an uneasy truce.
85. The ship was flying the flag of truce.
86. The Russians rejected a French offer for a truce.
87. Let us call a truce to terror.
88. So I propose a peace, a truce.
89. No flag of truce possible. Men are willing to die, provided their opponent will kill them.
90. It has been assumed by some people, especially those with an interest in discrediting George Marshall and the Truman administration, that this truce prevented Chiang from conquering Manchuria .
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