How to Use postwar in a Sentence

postwar

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• Born in 1933, Ono grew up in wartime and postwar Japan.
  — Emily Labarge, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The highways were essential to the white flight of the postwar decades.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
• Cheap repairs done in the postwar 1950s made things worse.
  — William Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• In the postwar years their interest turned to abstract art.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• That's essentially the same as at this point in 2018, when midterm turnout hit a postwar high.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2022
• Early MGs were lively handlers and helped spur the postwar sportscar craze on both sides of the Atlantic.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2023
• The two goals could intersect in Netanyahu’s vague plan for a postwar Gaza.
  — Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
• Xuande grew up in Melbourne, the son of bakers who had fled postwar Vietnam.
  — Brandon Yu, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Modular homes have come a long way since their postwar roots.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 24 Mar. 2023
• Change in postwar Ireland was a bit like that, except in moral reverse.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Jay Garrick had been the Flash during the Golden Age, but his comics were canceled amid that postwar purge.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022
• The good court of the postwar period was an aberration.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Many of us could make a strong case for the Miura being the most beautiful postwar Italian sports car of them all.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 July 2022
• But the plans have not been embraced by all in the 41st Ward and its neighborhoods filled with postwar bungalows and ranch-style homes.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2022
• Kishida is Japan’s first postwar leader to enter a war zone.
  — Karl Ritter, ajc, 21 Mar. 2023
• At the time, the suburbs were pushing beyond the first wave of postwar, track-house developments.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
• In the postwar era, thousands of people turned out in the sweltering summer heat to watch women play ball.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• There is still no consensus on how to govern postwar Gaza.
  — Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024
• As Schaefer asks, What was the nature of the performance of striptease in postwar burlesque films?
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024
• The idea of Jews living in postwar Gaza may seem improbable, but Gaza hasn’t always been Jew-free.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• From the postwar boom through the Judgment of Paris in 1976, Americans enjoyed a love affair with French wine that continues to this day.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2024
• Adams: The postwar era was all about embracing fun and lightheartedness in decor.
  — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023
• Much of Germany’s postwar growth has been made possible by guest workers, many of them from Turkey and North Africa.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The preponderance of buildings are postwar slabs on the avenues with smaller prewar ones on the side streets.
  — Curbed, 19 Dec. 2022
• In the scaremongers’ version of history, the 1970s represent the worst of all postwar worlds.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• The new pavilion’s second floor will focus on the postwar period from 1945 to today.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Lloyd Webber was born in postwar London to a family of music lovers.
  — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
• The populations that had defined the postwar decades could be seen as a kind of placeholder, until the eleventh-hour rescue.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• The Blitz helped pave the way for postwar Britain, too, demonstrating citizens’ value to the government.
  — Gregory Wakeman, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
• Moriyama capturing changes in postwar Japan and the effects of modernization on the nation’s culture.
  — Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024