Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "separate peace"

  • April 2--Both the Turkish and Russian Ambassadors to Italy deny a report that Turkey is seeking a separate peace.

  • April 3--It is officially denied at Vienna that Austria has opened negotiations with Russia for a separate peace, as has been persistently reported of late.

  • It is certain, that they have animated the nation to a high degree, so that a separate peace, or any mean concessions to Great Britain, cannot now be made.

  • We suppose that rumor to be a consequence of the mischievous determination of the Cabinet, to propose independence on condition of a separate peace.

  • If they had accepted the Russian mediation for a separate peace, we should have seen a very formidable difference.

  • France would then be induced by the loss of her colonies to make a separate peace.

  • During their progress Portugal, England's sole remaining ally, made a separate peace.

  • In this emergency the Emperor Francis was compelled to sue for a separate peace, and the British government obliged to release him from the terms of his alliance.

  • Austria asked for peace, but made it clear that she did not mean a separate peace.

  • A semi-official statement was issued the same day in an attempt to make it appear that the Dual Monarchy had not been recreant to its treaty agreement not to conclude a separate peace.

  • Count Andrassy's note to Lansing, it was explained, did not "necessarily mean an offer of a separate peace.

  • The fine distinction between "separate peace" and "separate action to reestablish peace" could deceive nobody.

  • Their good faith, however, is dubious, for they put forward a proposal so patently absurd that it could hardly have been made except for the purpose of paving the way for a separate peace.

  • Ministry had rigorous instructions not to give any one even a hint as to whether Italy would or would not sign the London Convention, renouncing the right to conclude a separate peace.

  • This, however, was no other than a sacrifice to the resentment of the czarina, who loudly complained that the emperor had concluded a separate peace, contrary to his engagements with the Russian empire.

  • Brandenburg and Denmark had been alienated by the States concluding a separate peace at Nijmwegen and leaving them in the lurch.

  • So resolute was the attitude of Amsterdam that the leaders of both municipal parties, Valckenier and Hooft, were agreed in demanding that the French offers of a separate peace should be accepted.

  • The emperor, when the other powers had come to terms, refused to accede; and finally England, Spain and the United Provinces determined to conclude a separate peace.

  • In 1676 the French king, fearing the power of the coalition that was growing in strength, endeavoured to detach the republic by offering to make a separate peace on generous terms.

  • That among other things we were bound not to make a separate peace or truce, and that the assurance of our independence was avowed to be the object of our treaty.

  • He said those prospects were less fair than ever; for that though Mr Wentworth had been sent there by England on pretence of settling a cartel, yet that his real business was to negotiate a separate peace.

  • But I appeal to every newspaper upon the Continent, whether one paragraph, one wish, or hint of returning to the government of Great Britain, or of making a separate peace, has ever appeared.

  • Russia will not betray her friends, and with contempt refuses any consideration of a separate peace.

  • All factions in the Duma were bitterly opposed to a separate peace.

  • The Revolution itself was a genuine and sincere effort on the part of the Russian people to avert the disaster and shame of a separate peace; to serve the Allied cause with all the fidelity of which they were capable.

  • There would have been a separate peace if the old rĂ©gime had remained in power a few weeks longer and the Revolution been averted.

  • Tell His Majesty that all goes well, and that Sturmer quite agrees that we must have a separate peace and is taking every step towards that end.

  • Failure to produce the desired result induced Rasputin and his paymasters in Berlin to adopt yet another method of forcing Russia into a separate peace.

  • And yet Sturmer was at this moment crying, "No separate peace!

  • Rasputin and his friends in the course of a few days created a veritable whirlwind of false reports, hoping by that means to shatter or stifle all manifestations of patriotic feeling, and prepare Russia for a separate peace.

  • Only the other day he telegraphed to Downing Street that you Russians would never agree to a separate peace to isolate Britain.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "separate peace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    filial duty; medical officers; must accept; permanent crops; perpetual youth; pure mathematics; say good; separate article; separate chapter; separate dish; separate entity; separate existence; separate from; separate government; separate peace; separate piece; separate school; separate schools; separate species; separate state; separate them; separate trees; separated from; turned down; upper parts; white figure