ALLIANCE in a Sentence

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Just at this time there was a tremendous uproar being raised concerning the alliance between the criminals and the police.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALLIANCE
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alliance
 n.  state of being allied; act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  A land of vast plains lies apart, the home of Mavors, in Thracian tillage, and sometime under warrior Lycurgus' reign; friendly of old to Troy, and their gods in alliance while our fortune lasted.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
2  I never hoped to slip away in stealthy flight; fancy not that; nor did I ever hold out the marriage torch or enter thus into alliance.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
3  Lo, discord is ripened at thy desire into baleful war: tell them now to mix in amity and join alliance.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
4  These wage perpetual war with the Latin race; these do thou take to thy camp's alliance, and join with them in league.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
5  Therefore my hand is already joined in the alliance you seek, and soon as to-morrow's dawn rises again over earth, I will send you away rejoicing in mine aid, and supply you from my store.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
6  All Etruria may join on with them in alliance: nor let them fear the darkness, and the cowardly theft of their Palladium, and the guards cut down on the fortress height.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
7  The alliance with Prussia, Austria's treachery, Bonaparte's new triumph, tomorrow's levee and parade, and the audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
8  The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance," began Hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, "without expressing.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI
9  Besides, unless His Majesty the Emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI
10  If the Emperor pleases to recognize Bonaparte as Emperor and to conclude an alliance with him, it means that that is the right thing to do.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
11  The largest of these was the French circle of the Napoleonic alliance, the circle of Count Rumyantsev and Caulaincourt.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX
12  And Gerald would scold and bawl but, for all his remarks of yesterday about not wanting her to marry Ashley, he would be pleased beyond words at an alliance between his family and the Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  The law forbade Sunday drinking; and this had delivered the saloon-keepers into the hands of the police, and made an alliance between them necessary.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
15  Just at this time there was a tremendous uproar being raised concerning the alliance between the criminals and the police.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The two parties entered into a defensive alliance with each other to win the election.
2  Under the terms of the alliance, Japan was not obliged to enter the war.
3  The two parties were still too much apart to form an alliance.
4  The new alliance will be looking for consensus among its members when developing its global policies.
5  But in order to maintain a credible threat of intervention, we have to maintain a credible alliance.
6  The companies have formed an alliance to market the product.
7  The alliance stands ready to do what is necessary.
8  The organization is a broad alliance of many different groups.
9  Religious fanatics have formed an unholy alliance with right wing groups.
10  States seek to become stronger through alliance.
11  The strategy alliance served to strengthen the country's hand in the region.
12  The original alliance between Guntram and his nephew thus came to an end.
13  Mr. Berlusconi's alliance of moderate and right-wing parties has an absolute majority in the Senate.
14  Now sources close to Sharon and Peres, say they could lead to a long-term alliance - or even a joint party.
15  They need no persuading of the dangers of adventurism, which has been concentrating minds in the alliance since 2014 when President Putin annexed Crimea and fomented war in eastern Ukraine.