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 -
Around the time of the First World War, Coxon operated a tea shop staffed by servers in navy blazers and long cotton pants.
— Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 26 July 2024 -
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 -
During the First World War, collective nudity was said to strengthen morale among troops.
— Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024 -
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 -
At the dawn of the First World War, with aircraft now flying above the battlefield, pilots had a birds-eye view of the enemy position and could relay information about high-value targets to their own artillery.
— Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 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 -
Just before the outbreak of the First World War, Cubism broke away from conventions, forcing art toward abstraction, making the actual locations of any painting extremely difficult to discern.
— Nick Mafi, Architectural Digest, 27 Sep. 2024
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