How to Use war effort in a Sentence

war effort

noun
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  • About a third were called to reserve duty to join the war effort.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Her comments served as a reminder of the high stakes for the war effort in this year’s election.
    — Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024
  • During World War II, it was owned by the government to make things for the war effort.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2023
  • What do new laws mean for how Ukraine’s war effort is going?
    — Mallory Moench, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Many artists canceled their tours and concerts to focus on the war effort.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Since then, he’s been known to U.S. officials and figures around the world as one of the public faces of Ukraine’s war effort.
    — Greg Palkot, Fox News, 25 June 2023
  • Veselka has raised over half a million dollars for the war effort in Ukraine.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Many Americans ate horse meat as pork and beef were sent overseas to feed the war effort.
    — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • By the start of 1862, Benson was not alone in his conviction that the farmers of Liberia could bolster the Union war effort.
    — Bronwen Everill, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • The protesters also want the U.S. to stop supplying funding and weapons to the war effort.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
  • Some types of gossip seemed designed to sabotage the home-front war effort.
    — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But South Korea has been pressed by the United States, its most important ally, to help the war effort.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Like many aspects of Ukraine’s war effort, Kyiv believes the solution is at home.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 19 Feb. 2024
  • In the event that Trump is reelected, Europeans must be able to sustain the Ukrainian war effort on their own.
    — Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And saying that the country's war effort must be stopped to protect the Palestinian people.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 May 2024
  • Britain, France, and Russia, who had been at war since the summer of 1914, welcomed the news that American forces and supplies would be used in the Allied war effort.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Lawmakers did not enact an income tax until the Civil War, to pay for the Union war effort.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
  • This civil effort should be as important as the war effort.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
  • For a time, the sense of national unity over the war effort and hope that hostages could be rescued as Israel made military gains helped tamp down the protests.
    — The Editors, National Review, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The protesters also want the U.S. to halt military aid to Israel's war effort.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2024
  • About half the Ukraine money would boost U.S. defense manufacturing as part of the war effort.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The summit and decision on funds comes at an extremely important time in the war effort for Ukraine.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The war caused untold suffering and death; dismantle the war machine, hamper the war effort.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Russia, meanwhile, is trying to boost revenues to support its war effort in Ukraine.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • When Raquel was 2, the family moved to Southern California for her father’s work in the war effort.
    — Anita Gates, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • To do so, the hackers worked to install a piece of malware rhR the agencies are calling Infamous Chisel on Android tablets used in the war effort.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Billboard campaigns urge citizens to fund the war effort.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, he can be expected to ratchet up the Russian war effort in Ukraine, a task that may be made more complicated if these events have hit morale on the front lines.
    — The Editors, National Review, 26 June 2023
  • Schoolchildren and students have also been co-opted into the war effort.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Common sense dictates that the only two rational paths would be to flee Ukraine for another country’s safety or devote oneself fully to the war effort.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024

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