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Example sentences for "waged"

Lexicographically close words:
wafts; wafture; wag; waga; wage; wagen; wager; wagered; wagering; wagers
  1. The attention of Pompey was, immediately after that time, too much engrossed by the civil war waged between himself, and Caesar, to take any active steps in respect to the duties of his appointment.

  2. Thus, on the one hand, while there is a perpetual civil war being waged between members of the same species, on the other hand there is a foreign war being waged by the species as a whole against its world as a whole.

  3. At that time there was waged one of the most remarkable warfares against death in its most terrifying form that the world has ever known.

  4. Manson has pointed out an interesting possible result of the crusade that is now being waged against the yellow fever mosquitoes.

  5. Fortunately for us, the battle is waged at a distance back from the coast, and in front of Sans Souci.

  6. Another evil against which the Reformer waged long and resolute battle, was the institution of the orders of mendicant friars.

  7. For this reason, Christ the Revelator, foreseeing the warfare that would be waged against the study of the Revelation, pronounced a blessing upon all who should read, hear, and observe the words of the prophecy.

  8. The individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages, each striving for supremacy, because each was blind to the value and importance of the other.

  9. The Hohenzollerns have ever waged war mainly for spoliation and booty.

  10. A bitter war of races and languages is being waged between the Austrian German and the Magyar, between the Teuton and the Slav.

  11. Not once have they waged war for an ideal or for a principle.

  12. In one he sought the union of men through love; in the other he waged war upon the world, the enemy of love.

  13. The Slavs and the Aisti and various other nations inhabit the eastern shore, amongst whom the chief are these Welatabi against whom then the King waged war.

  14. Of all the wars that he waged that in Aquitania, begun, but not finished, by his father, was the first that he undertook, because it seemed easy of accomplishment.

  15. Nor can the memory of man recall any war waged against the Franks by which they were so much enriched and their wealth so increased.

  16. For the space of twelve winters Grendel waged a perpetual feud against Hrothgar and his people; the livelong night he roamed over the misty moors, visiting Heorot, and destroying both the tried warriors and the young men whenever he was able.

  17. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die.

  18. United in an army, they waged great wars.

  19. No laws had been passed against slavery; no dogmas even had condemned it by definition; no war had been waged against it, no new race or ruling caste had repudiated it; but it was gone.

  20. When I think of these things, I have no temptation to mere grumbling at the great gentry that waged the great war of our fathers.

  21. Fierce internecine wars were now being waged between the tribes of the locality, which made any thought of progress, so long as they lasted, an impossibility.

  22. To succeed in this enterprise he waged many a war with African tribes like the Boni.

  23. In the meanwhile a more prosperous and worthier contest was being waged in South America.

  24. Footnote 395: The name is a peculiar one, reminding us of the Bacaudae, who for more than a century waged a sort of servile war in Gaul against the officers of the Empire.

  25. The Byzantine ambassador sought the presence of the King, boldly denounced his wicked deed, and declared on the part of his master a war which would be waged without truce or treaty till Amalasuentha was avenged.

  26. Theodoric himself has always found that those wars were prosperously waged which were ended moderately.

  27. State's Attorney Longenecker nervously watched the fight being waged by his associates.

  28. From the moment that the prisoners had first faced Judge McConnell, their attorneys had waged a stubborn and a bitter war against the veniremen passed by the State.

  29. Cronin had waged against his enemies and especially against the deadly and malicious plottings of the triangle.

  30. And amidst all the heroism of his pride, he was rent by tragic dolour at thought of the dark battle which was waged around the tiara, all the evil hatred and voracious appetite which stirred in the depths of the gloom.

  31. Though he did not found the Inquisition, its principles were his, and it was with fire and sword that his fraternal, loving heart waged war on schism.

  32. Had you made war on us to obtain possession of Cuba, as you would have done but for the occurrence of your civil troubles, that war would have been waged by the United States, and not by the South and by the Democratic party.

  33. We shall begin with the internal or civil wars which were waged between the families of York and Lancaster.

  34. The second great contention which prevailed during this period consisted of the wars waged between France and England for the possession of the territory which now forms the northern portion of France.

  35. The two principal branches of the family were the descendants respectively of the Dukes of York and Lancaster, and the wars which they waged against each other are called in history the wars of the houses of York and Lancaster.

  36. Santa Anna, with the natural fierceness of the Spanish-Indian, waged a ferocious war on the revolutionists.

  37. The rebellion of the thirteen colonies in 1776 and the war for independence did not grow out of slavery; that war was waged neither to perpetuate nor to abolish it.

  38. The defeats of our armies in the past we have deserved, because we waged a war to protect and perpetuate and to rivet firmer the chains of slavery.

  39. He did not believe war could be successfully waged by an invading army with its officers and soldiers acting as missionaries of mercy for and protectors and preservers of the property of hostile inhabitants.

  40. For months the controversy was waged in Congress between the friends of the administration and its enemies, and finally resulted in a practical triumph of the Free-soil principle.

  41. Parallels between the American civil war and those waged by Frederick the Great and Napoleon are inadmissable.

  42. It was not to be safely assumed that the legal decision of a constitutional question, which divided the framers of the Federal Constitution, would necessarily affirm the party and sectional dogmas upon which the North waged the war.

  43. With a jocular courtesy that veiled the deepest irony, he complimented him on having waged a fine campaign in 1812.

  44. This island was held by the Knights of St. John, the last of those companies of Christian warriors who had once waged war on the infidels in Palestine.

  45. The saying is certainly true for those wars that are waged in defence of some great principle or righteous cause.

  46. But the fact remains that, with the exception of his Oporto failure, Soult came with credit, if not glory, out of every campaign waged against Wellington.

  47. Thus it is in the case of a national war, waged for conquest.

  48. The mass of mulatto population grew paler as it multiplied, and catching the refinement along with the tint of civilization, waged a war upon marriage which had well nigh expelled it from the island.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acquitted; discharged; expended; hired; liquidated; paid; remitted; settled; spent