Sentence examples for had been at war from inspiring English sources

The Iraq conflict was "unwinnable," the advertisement argued; it also claimed that some of Petraeus's past accounts of progress there had been "at war with the facts".

The two gangs had been at war for years.

"We had been at war for eight years, and no one could explain the strategy".

In reality, there was no choice – patriarchy had been at war with women for a millennium.

Athens had been at war with Sparta for 16 years when Euripides' play was first performed.

In December 1939, Britain had been at war with Germany for three months.

"This was one or two years after the British had been at war with the real thing".

He was born in Jalalabad, in 1978, which meant that Afghanistan had been at war for his entire life.

We've been at war for years.

The world has been at war.

Since then, America has been at war.