How to Use World War I in a Sentence
World War I
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Jones' grandfather died in World War I and is buried in France.
—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
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The beginning of the 20th century saw the start of World War I, which meant rationing.
—Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
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Mourning, and then World War I, meant touring in Europe was out of the question.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
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Two were fraternal twins who served in World War I and practiced law.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2024
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In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend.
—WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
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Burlesque flourished through World War I, but things changed with the Depression.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024
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Freud wrote about the uncanny in 1919, months after the end of World War I, which had left millions dead and Europe in ruins.
—Joshua Glass, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
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Prior to World War I, many Americans didn’t maintain consistent spellings of their first and last names.
—Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
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This, of course, had to do with the fact—in 2020 and just after World War I, when the novel was published—that the world was entering a confusing new age of anxiety.
—Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
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Plastic surgery became more important with the advent of trench warfare in World War I, when bullets could strike people in the face in the trenches.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2024
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His passion for aviation started early, and after a first ride at age 13 in an old World War I trainer, Mack was hooked.
—Paul Glenshaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
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The sub, built during World War I, was recommissioned a couple months before it was tested for action at a deeper depth.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2024
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The World War I monument was defaced with pro-Palestinian stickers.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 10 May 2024
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After extensive work and a test flight, the plane was put on a boat and shipped back to Massachusetts, arriving in time for last year’s World War I aviation event.
—Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
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Surrealism’s origins are in the collective trauma of World War I and the global flu epidemic of 1918.
—Cath Pound, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
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Coming on the heels of the end of World War I and the global upheaval that ensued, that era led to a postwar boom with many finding prosperity and new opportunities.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 13 June 2024
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Her father, Harry, was a telegraph operator during World War I and then a furrier who brought the family west in the mid-1930s.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
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While aerial combat emerged as a powerful tool during World War I, technological advancements in the decades since had opened up the skies as a new front.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
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Not surprisingly for a book about World War I, the story told here is filled with the exploits of male figures and infused with a palpable masculine energy.
—Vaughn Rasberry, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
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During World War I, many of the grave artifacts that archaeologists had preserved were destroyed.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
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Trump reportedly said when refusing to visit the graves of World War I casualties.
—John Lawrence, Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2024
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Etienne, for example, is traumatized by World War I and has spent decades holed up in his house, communicating with the outside world only through his radio.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
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Branagh’s Poirot, himself a World War I veteran, has bared his own physical and psychological scars in this series before.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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By the 1960s, museum officials had determined the war exhibits, built in the years following World War I, no longer fit the institution's primary mission.
—Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
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Then, after World War I, much of Europe went into a racial panic that colonial populations would rise up and overwhelm civilization.
—Stefanos Geroulanos, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
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Unlike the destruction caused during World War I, which was largely confined to battlefields, countries and cities were decimated across Europe.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
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The Regents exams, some of which must be offered under federal education law, have shaped classrooms statewide since before World War I and were once viewed as a model blueprint for rigorous standards.
—Troy Closson, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
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The bomber jacket originated in World War I, as the first military aviators required an insulating jacket that could still be worn comfortably in an open-air cockpit.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2023
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It was first enacted by the federal government as a way to save coal (by adjusting clocks to accommodate for more daytime and thus needing less energy for light) during World War I in the spring of 1918, and was only meant to exist during wartime.
—People Staff, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
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The practice of food gardening for local public sharing was made popular during World War I by the government to boost community supported food supplies.
—Tamara Yakaboski, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2024
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