How to Use World War II in a Sentence

World War II

noun

• The practice of aircraft crash testing first got off the ground after World War II.
  — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2024
• By World War II, most of the groves had disappeared, replaced by housing.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
• Carla fled there a few years later during World War II.
  — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• In fact, its roots stretch back to World War II, with the invention of the first digital computers.
  — Zafar Daud, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
• The show starts with a full-on World War II flashback, complete with a crashing battleship and some number of creepy-crawly creatures.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2023
• Since the end of World War II, wars between states have sharply declined, but conflicts involving nonstate armed groups have risen.
  — Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• The tradition of raising chickens carries on from the early 1900s into around World War II.
  — Cristian Benavides, CBS News, 27 July 2024
• During World War II the entire country started to observe daylight saving time year-round.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2023
• After World War II, the company expanded to include glazed donuts and pies, becoming one of the first wholesale bakeries to perfect the honey bun.
  — Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2024
• However, most of this destruction was prevented by World War II.
  — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2024
• The remains of a soldier killed during World War II at age 27 were identified by military scientists after nearly 79 years.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• The decades immediately following World War II were another pivotal moment in the history of the city.
  — Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus, Foreign Affairs, 27 Nov. 2023
• This now modern city founded in the 13th century, whose historic center was left almost entirely to ruin during World War II, is singing a more progressive tune, far from the polonaise.
  — Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2024
• Plus, incredible footage of a World War II submarine discovered deep below.
  — CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• Players advance through World War II in campaigns or battle against human opponents in multiplayer mode.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• Even these details were jumping-off points for broader bits about buying real estate or dads’ obsession with World War II, not occasions for deeper disclosure.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
• Similar to women breaking into the nation’s workforce while millions of young men fought in World War II, department stores and event organizers during that period hired women to take the yuletide reins.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2023
• California’s economy, still largely rooted in extracting resources from the earth, underwent a major change when the nation became embroiled in World War II.
  — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• Other itineraries will include alfresco lunches at a pearl farm, deep dives into World War II history, and song and dance performances hosted by local youth.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
• In the aftermath of its devastating defeat in World War II, the country faced food rationing, price controls, a collapse in industrial production and a shrunken workforce following the deaths ofmillions of working-age men.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024
• Others embraced a set of extremist views once considered beyond the pale on a continent still largely defined by a 20th-century liberal-democratic consensus, born out of the traumas of World War II.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• But the rise of residential air-conditioning units after World War II meant that these protective coverings were no longer considered a necessity.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2024
• Their history stretches back to the end of World War II, when returning veterans—particularly those having trouble reintegrating into civilian life—began to form new groups.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Following World War II, public junior high night schools offered students who could not complete their compulsory nine years of education an opportunity to learn.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
• Things dramatically changed in building materials, techniques and aesthetics after World War II.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024