How to Use World War I in a Sentence

World War I

noun

• Jones' grandfather died in World War I and is buried in France.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
• The beginning of the 20th century saw the start of World War I, which meant rationing.
  — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
• Mourning, and then World War I, meant touring in Europe was out of the question.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Two were fraternal twins who served in World War I and practiced law.
  — Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Burlesque flourished through World War I, but things changed with the Depression.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The World War I monument was defaced with pro-Palestinian stickers.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 10 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• During World War I, many of the grave artifacts that archaeologists had preserved were destroyed.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• Trump reportedly said when refusing to visit the graves of World War I casualties.
  — John Lawrence, Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024