How to Use the Cold War in a Sentence

the Cold War

noun

• Peter Wright was one of the good guys during the Cold War.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 29 May 2024
• Marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024
• But as the logic of the Cold War took hold, those hopes curdled.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• In the middle of the Cold War, that’s what many residents thought.
  — Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2024
• The early stages of the flying saucer age really is the story of the start of the Cold War.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The same was true for the eight years since the Cold War ended, pace Huntington.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
• In a sense, this incursion marked the beginning of the Cold War.
  — The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• The prison swap on Thursday was the largest prisoner swap between the two countries since the end of the Cold War.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 2 Aug. 2024
• Propagandists on both sides of the Cold War framed the conflict as a black-and-white war of ideas.
  — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2024
• Once again, the White House was well aware of the detrimental effect these events had when viewed through the Cold War lens.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• Did the Cold War and the need to get capable planes in service add any sense of urgency to the job?
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
• But during the Cold War, we were often seen as brutish and heavy-handed.
  — TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
• The series addresses the Cold War which is often still seen in black-and-white.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• The main thing that was going on in the world was the Cold War, and then these guys were trying to pretend like they weren’t involved.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• At the height of the Cold War, many free services were seen as supporting communist ideals.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 May 2024
• In 1973, in the throes of the Cold War, the notion that nations and ideologies would be incidental might have seemed like the stuff of pulpy sci-fi.
  — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
• There was a growing sense among the Russian élite that the results of the Cold War needed to be revisited.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• After the Cold War, production dropped to a few hundred million rounds a year.
  — Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• His belief in the game’s potential eventually leads him to the Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold War.
  — Vulture, 17 Feb. 2023
• At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government decided to start banking seeds for staples such as corn and soybeans.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024
• The movie centers around the fictional invention of the Pop-Tart and takes inspiration from the Cold War and space era.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
• Today’s war in Ukraine and past conflicts during the Cold War share this structural constraint.
  — Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
• During the Cold War, a heated debate arose over the role of economic planning.
  — Daniel Pellathy, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
• Well, sports tech has come a long way since Rocky ended the Cold War, and what used to be reserved for top competitors has filtered down to kids’ leagues.
  — Michael Schreiber, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• During the Cold War, though, this rocket was part of a dangerous class of nuclear weapons.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• The site is one of hundreds around the nation built to defend the U.S. from what were perceived as serious foreign threats during the Cold War.
  — Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2023
• The death of Lumumba was a signal moment of both the Cold War and decolonization, two defining events of the post-1945 world.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Reagan and Mulroney became friends as two national leaders during the last decade of the Cold War.
  — Rob Gillies, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
• Since the end of the Cold War, states and civil society organizations have called on the UN to deal with conflicts large and small as a matter of habit.
  — Richard Gowan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023
• Ronald Reagan famously won the Cold War without firing a shot.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024