How to Use allied in a Sentence

allied

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  • The allied countries have been in talks on the matter for months.
    — Reuters, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • This allied approach works with stress in much the same way.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The Allied soldiers who weren’t killed limped back from the defeat.
    — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The allied forces must always let China make the first move.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Now one of them—or its wreckage, at least—is in Ukrainian and allied hands.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • With the aid of allied politicians, the NRA has kept the amendment and related riders in place.
    — Will Van Sant, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • But that allied force must be able to make good use of the intelligence the F-35s collect.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • His team played a vital, long-secret role in Allied success in the war.
    — Vinay K. Chaudhri, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
  • There is an allied reason why that type of adornment works.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Nursing would merge with allied health and the fine arts, my school, will be absorbed by arts and sciences.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The men and women in it, mostly Air Force but some from allied countries, guard the highest of high grounds: space.
    — The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • The code was never broken and the Code Talkers were credited with helping the allied forces win the war.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The attacks marked one of the single deadliest days for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in the 20 years since the allied invasion.
    — Melissa Quinn, Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Germany is one of the world’s largest arms exporters and ships weapons to non-allied countries such as Egypt or Pakistan.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The United States has banned the import or sale of Huawei’s telecom-network gear and has urged allied nations not to use it.
    — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Even with the 33 seats that the far-right Vox got and the one seat going to an allied party, the PP was still seven seats short of a majority.
    — Joseph Wilson and Ciarán Giles, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2023
  • Thus far, support for Ukraine has proved durable among allied nations.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Yet the question of a gas embargo is part of a wider long-term challenge to the allied pressure campaign against Mr. Putin.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Code Talkers were credited with helping the allied forces win the war and have been seen as heroes ever since.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The 3,000 will bolster allied forces in Germany, Poland and Romania.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Otto urged Rhaenyra to pick someone from an allied house, but Criston comes from a more humble background as the son of a steward.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 Aug. 2022
  • But Iran has 31 provinces and authorities haven't taken the step to lock down the country like in the allied nations of Iraq and Lebanon.
    — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2020
  • The Allied invasion of Sicily was now only three weeks away.
    — Myke Cole and Michael Livingston, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Ukrainian president also compared the current war to the allied efforts to defeat the Nazis.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 9 May 2023
  • Lam and his fellow Chinese naval officers supported the Allied troops on the beaches from one of the British ships off the French coast.
    — Peter Guo, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • On the 20th anniversary of the allied invasion of Iraq that marked the start of the eight-year conflict, there are still some deep reflections and questions about the toll of the battles.
    — ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Later, the White House relents to pressure and agrees to allow allied nations to give Ukraine their F-16 fighter jets.
    — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • Beauty allied to drive and aggression: still not enough.
    — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • Harris appeared to have the superior ground game in Arizona, with her campaign and allied groups, like unions, working efficiently to knock on doors and turn out voters.
    — The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Russia and Iran and its allied groups had helped Syrian government forces reclaim control of all of Aleppo that year, after a grueling military campaign and a siege that lasted for weeks.
    — Sarah El Deeb, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024

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