How to Use prewar in a Sentence

prewar

adjective

• As an adult, Frank had moved to Atlanta, an odd place for a prewar Jew.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• That’s the most since the war began, though less than half the prewar daily average of 500.
  — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• Ukraine gained on the battlefield but isn’t back to its prewar borders.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
• By the end of the war, the Nazis had murdered more than 80 percent of Greece’s prewar Jewish population.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• And the price of urea fertilizer, which almost doubled in the war's first weeks, is back to its prewar level.
  — David J. Lynch, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
• But after years of research, scholars have drawn a blank on the identity of the prewar owner.
  — Catherine Hickley, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• The prewar daily average weight of goods on working days was about 7,500 tons.
  — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• About 10% of Korea’s prewar population was killed in the war.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The rooms appear a bit cozy (read: small) in the film, but that’s certainly not uncommon for prewar structures, no matter the square footage.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 May 2021
• But these are not enough for a country with a prewar population of about 40 million.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 24 Dec. 2022
• Linoleum floors get a chic update in this prewar apartment designed by David Netto.
  — Katy Spratte Joyce, ELLE Decor, 31 Aug. 2023
• More than a million North Koreans, or more than 10 percent of the North’s prewar population, were believed to have been killed in the war.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• The charge of crimes against peace had been justified in Nuremberg by various prewar agreements to proscribe war, such as the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Conricus said his understanding is that the zone will extend just over half a mile from the border — more than double the size of the prewar buffer area.
  — Jonathan Baran, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• When Hisako Hibi was eventually able to get back to San Francisco in 1954, she and her husband’s prewar art could not be found.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
• Fewer than 200 aid trucks enter each day, less than half the prewar level, and aid groups say the fighting hinders distribution.
  — Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2024
• To passersby, the building on the southeast corner of Manhattan’s 72nd Street and Lexington Avenue looks like a modest relic of the prewar era.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 9 June 2023
• The deal has helped Ukraine to resume shipping wheat, corn and other products at nearly prewar levels, bringing global prices down.
  — William Mauldin, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• The book begins at Oppenheimer’s funeral and then flashes back to his childhood, before churning on through the prewar years and the development of the bomb.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• The answer could be the equivalent of prewar steel in a Geiger counter: data known to be free (or perhaps as free as possible) from generative AI’s touch.
  — Rahul Rao, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
• From the perspective of Kyiv and its partners, this means that at a minimum Ukraine’s prewar boundaries must be reinstated.
  — Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
• The Russian state nuclear company, Rosatom, has taken over management of the plant, but many of its prewar Ukrainian staff members still work there.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• Ukraine’s government says the plants will supply 4.5 gigawatts of power this winter, a third of the country’s prewar output, according to the United Nations.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Here was British machismo immune from mockery, the prewar vision of England that Fleming wanted to project onto a world turned upside-down — a world, in short, where the Beatles could become stars.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• One such building, 2000 Washington, currently has a rare prewar penthouse for sale.
  — Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2023
• That means about 19% of Ukraine’s prewar population, roughly the equivalent of the population of Washington state, have fled the country.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2023
• Yet due mainly to the recent attacks, the internet connectivity rate is down to 35 percent of its prewar level.
  — Jeff Stein and David L. Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2022
• This lively group biography offers an intimate glimpse of the Bright Young Things, the artistic coterie that emerged in the nineteen-twenties as successors to the prewar Bloomsburyites.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Although the initial spike in energy prices after the 2022 invasion has abated, costs are not expected to return to prewar levels any time soon.
  — Sudha David-Wilp, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024
• The passenger side features highlights of the marque’s prewar legacy, while the driver’s side portrays the contemporary story.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024