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armistice - use in sentences
Converse of object
- conclude: Sherman concluded an armistice with General Joseph E. Johnston on 21st April.
- sign: On the 30th October the Turks signed an Armistice.
- seek: They seek no armistice; they have no territory to defend; they have no public to answer to, " Rumsfeld said.
- follow: Their coalition was re-elected by a landslide following the Armistice.
- agree: The decision of military men to agree an armistice with Germany was ideological to the core.
- negotiate: However, unable to persuade representatives from the warring nations to take part, the conference was unable to negotiate an Armistice.
Adjective modifier
- Italian: On 9 th September 1943 the Italian Armistice was signed, the POWs were handed over to the German Army.
- unofficial: Militarily, this unofficial armistice on the Aragon front only benefitted the enemy.
- mutual: We had a kind of mutual armistice with the Germans in the trenches in front of us.
- immediate: The state of the army made it imperative for army headquarters to use every means to secure an immediate armistice.
Modifies a noun
- agreement: The US was forced to sign an armistice agreement on July 27, 1953.
- day: Armistice Day is abridged from an article in Peace News, 7 November 1936.
- condition: With respect to the Hungarian forces, the Hungarian Government was not carrying out the preliminary armistice conditions accepted several days ago.
- term: The armistice terms were also more moderate than the French were expecting.
- silence: The Legion renewed their call for an armistice day silence, this year falling on a Monday.
Preposition: in
- carriage: The defeated French were made to sign the armistice in the same railroad carriage as the used by the defeated Germans in 1918.
Preposition: from
- position: Four of these graves were brought in after the Armistice from isolated positions in the commune.
Preposition: by
- concentration: The Cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of over 700 graves from the Battlefields between the Somme and the Luce.
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