How to Use allied in a Sentence

allied

adjective
  • 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
  • Anyone who isn’t in the U.S. or one of its allied countries, that is?
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The allied forces must always let China make the first move.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
  • To the north and the east, allied troops were struggling to push back the front line, which had nearly reached the French capital.
    — Laurent Rebours, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • 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 comments come in the midst of Trump’s ongoing trade war with allied nations.
    — Erin Corbett, Fortune, 9 June 2018
  • 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
  • Turkey says five of its soldiers and 16 allied fighters were killed in the fighting.
    — Mehmet Guzel, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Three Allied cemeteries were established in the area at the time.
    — Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
  • The date when Allied troops entered the largest camp run by Nazi Germany is also the day used around the world to pay tribute to those who died in the Holocaust.
    — Simon Perry, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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 Washington-allied activists gained the upper hand and brought the gay rights ordinance up for a vote in 1986.
    — Albert Williams, Chicago Reader, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Government forces and an allied militia known as the Janjaweed burned villages to the ground.
    — Justin Lynch, Slate Magazine, 11 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Putin and Rouhani aren't the only ones doubting the legitimacy of the allied strike.
    — Jamie Tarabay, CNN, 16 Apr. 2018
  • And these firms are overwhelmingly based in the United States and allied countries, not in China.
    — Stephen G. Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The most iconic of these shows six Marines raising the American flag, using their bodies to push the flagpole upright and mark Allied dominance of the island.
    — Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2025

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