How to Use First World War in a Sentence

First World War

noun

• During the First World War, the house was shattered by shelling.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024
• The fighting would hark back to the awful trench warfare of the First World War.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• France’s entry into the First World War, in 1914, derailed the première, and the full score was lost.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
• His father had been killed in the First World War; his mother was a nightmare.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
• The cruise came just a few years after the world and its borders were disrupted by the First World War.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• This rebellion was exactly the kind of blow that was dealt to Russia in 1917, when the country was fighting the First World War.
  — Jessica Hornik, National Review, 13 July 2023
• But both of Bateson’s brothers died young—one in a hopeless infantry charge just a few weeks before the end of the First World War, and one by suicide four years later.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• The commission announced last week that Milner had discovered the remnants of an urgent arms race from the First World War.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• The first cycle starts with the breakdown of the economic order that existed before the First World War that many countries tried to restore after 1918.
  — Martin Daunton, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Mark’s family lived here until the beginning of the First World War and the revolution, burying their dead in the local Dutch cemetery.
  — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
• The failure to reestablish the global economic order after the First World War led to a loss of legitimacy and a search for new solutions.
  — Martin Daunton, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Winspear’s interest in the experiences of soldiers in the First World War arose in part from her interactions with her own grandfather.
  — Erik Pedersen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2024
• In the First World War, a roughly equal number of combatants and civilians were killed globally — approximately 10 million on each side.
  — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 27 May 2024
• Instead, much of this awkward English-language period piece focuses on peasants’ struggle to overthrow padrone control just after the First World War.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
• Synonymous with the utilitarian coat British soldiers wore in the trenches during the First World War, the military garment has become a wardrobe essential that has been reimagined by designers and brands countless times over.
  — Paula Lee, Glamour, 29 Nov. 2023
• However, conversions from pocket watches to wristwatches during the First World War resulted in pieces that carried over this unique feature into the military timepiece.
  — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024