Sentences with 'truce'
Example sentences and phrases with the word truce and other words derived from it.
• « Before the outbreak of the war, there was an uneasy truce in the Holy Roman Empire between the Catholic emperor, who had limited power outside his own ancestral lands (Habsburgs), and the numerous Protestant princes in their respective, mostly northern, territories. »
• « That Christmas, in a well-remembered symbolic moment, a brief and unauthorised truce was held on the Western Front between Entente and German forces long enough for French and German soldiers to emerge from their respective trenches and gather in the "no man's land" between the lines, with a German barber offering shaves and haircuts to all comers. »
• « The British Army eventually prevailed over the Maori, and a truce was signed at Te Arei Pa in 1861. »