CONFLICT in a Sentence

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It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONFLICT
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conflict
 n.  fight; struggle; incompatibility of dates or events
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY
2  In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, the other like her good angel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
3  The violent conflict which had been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; and every moment he encountered some new phase of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
4  There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
5  It was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
6  This conflict lasted two hours.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
7  The conflict on the plateau continued.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
8  A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
9  This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin of society.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
10  From this secret conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the European cabinets is suspicious in itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
11  She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort of inward conflict.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
12  To meet the needs of this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is slang.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
13  Each man had taken up his position for the conflict.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST
14  War, strife, conflict, were the very air he breathed and put him in a good humor.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
15  One word more before returning to our subject, the conflict.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
16  Hopes of settling the conflict peacefully are fading.
17  Both sides were drawn, willy-nilly, into the conflict.
18  Both sides in the conflict have agreed temporarily to suspend hostilities.
19  The government has done nothing to resolve the conflict over nurses' pay.
20  Military intervention will only aggravate the conflict even further.
21  Your statement is in conflict with the rest of the evidence.
22  His words are in conflict with his deeds.
23  There was a lot of conflict between him and his father.
24  He is in constant conflict with the authorities.
25  The government has taken these measures in an attempt to de-escalate the conflict.
26  He is sounding out Middle Eastern governments on ways to resolve the conflict.
27  These two aims are not always mutually complementary: at times they conflict.
28  They had worked for peace during the long era of conflict.
29  This is a serious dispute, and could lead to armed conflict.
30  The fear is that we have no exit strategy from this conflict.