How to Use interwar in a Sentence

interwar

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• He’s born in interwar England, among mahogany, silver, and ermine, with a full-time nurse and entrée to one of the finest schools in the land.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• There is no longer any such thing as the relative calm of an interwar period.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
• For the same nexus was at play when democracy collapsed in interwar Europe.
  — Thomas Weber, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
• This piece, one of the most elaborate, was inspired by the marquetry of the interwar furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
• Unlike the 1940 Disney classic, Del Toro’s movie takes place in Italy during the interwar period as fascism began to take hold of the country.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• And while the selections were bound by time and place — the percolating center of interwar artistic culture that was Paris in the 1920s — the real connective threads went deeper.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• She was particularly intrigued by the fact that the interwar period was considered by some to be the city’s golden age and that gangsters flourished during that time.
  — NBC News, 16 Nov. 2021
• Photographs show that soccer scarves were first worn in Britain in the interwar period, Mr. Oliver said, but fans have always been eager to identify with their favorite teams.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• Macron fears that a Ukrainian victory could give way to a dangerous, modern-day interwar period.
  — Michael Mazza and Shay Khatiri, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2023
• In addition to a reverential rendering of the literary scene at the bookstore, Maher vividly evokes the free-wheeling Parisian social life of the interwar period.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2022
• Yet if Russia is left in turmoil, bitter and isolated, with many of its leaders and people blaming others for its failures, as so many Germans did in those interwar decades, then the end of one war could simply lay the groundwork for another.
  — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
• During the interwar period and Great Depression, the U.S. unemployment rate reached 20 percent — a trend the mobilization of a wartime economy would help reverse.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
• Ahmed is referring to the era in Tangier's history, beginning in the interwar period and peaking in the 1950s, when the city served as a licentious playground for a motley assortment of artists, socialites, and hedonists.
  — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
• The collected edition of Jünger’s interwar theorizing runs to nearly one thousand pages, and gives the impression less of an engaged political writer with a taste for dandyism than a dandy with a taste for politics.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• The devastation of the interwar decades brought them both to appreciate imperiled democracy.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
• There’s an in-house elevator, for instance, which can fit a quartet of passengers along with central air conditioning, a rarity during the interwar period.
  — David Kaufman, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2022
• Moyn, who is also a frequent commentator on contemporary affairs, claims that while Freud’s environment in interwar Vienna may be different than ours, his ideas are still invaluable.
  — Udi Greenberg, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2022
• Basketball’s influence on Black culture continued to grow throughout the interwar period.
  — Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
• In interwar Europe, Arendt believed, social atomization and the breakdown of communal bonds had engendered a pervasive loneliness.
  — Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• Objectivity became enshrined as a journalistic ideal in the nineteen-twenties, precisely when these interwar journalists launched themselves into the world.
  — Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
• Restricting Jewish attendance in universities, it’s widely regarded as the interwar period’s first antisemitic law in Europe.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• If a return to empire offered no clear ideological alternative to interwar nationalism, that left only one other option: Bolshevism.
  — Mark Mazower, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• But Meloni would also represent continuity with Italy’s darkest episode: the interwar dictatorship of Benito Mussolini.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024