Example Sentences

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Some officers viewed the truce as a chance to improve living conditions in the trenches, while others worried that such unwarlike behaviour would undermine fighting spirit.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2014

The major industrial countries must meet this predicament by improving the living standards of the poorer nations, thereby increasing the commitment of all human beings to maintaining an unwarlike status quo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Assigned on a rotating basis to South African fighting units, the traditionally unwarlike Bushmen have distinguished themselves in combat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Parked on the desert, Columbia had a decidedly unwarlike look.

From Time Magazine Archive

A general order was issued, directing that “such unwarlike activity must cease.”

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman