How to Use wartime in a Sentence

wartime

noun
  • Many goods were rationed during wartime.
  • In wartime, the priority goes to the troops on the field.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Supreme Court has upheld past uses of that law in wartime.
    Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • In wartime, the Black Sea could become a shooting gallery.
    David Axe, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • In the past, when there were such problems, like wartime, it has been canceled.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2020
  • There’s a sense of wartime in the background, and a sense of inevitability.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
  • Over the past two weeks, some have learned that their conclusions are of less use in wartime.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The author starts right in with the reality of wartime.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • In 1945, wartime restrictions forced it to be pushed back by one month.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 2 May 2020
  • This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Bill had not served during wartime, but the battle metaphors still came easy.
    Tiffany Stanley, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • In wartime, the arrival of those things is not guaranteed.
    Ramin Skibba, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Another was that a child had to have been killed during wartime.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2020
  • One of the reasons to close the borders in wartime is to keep conscription-age men inside the country.
    Howard Amos, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Rules for soldier conduct in wartime then fell under the Lieber Code.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The current crisis does not approach the upheaval of wartime.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2020
  • In wartime, some of the pilots in the competition were heroes.
    Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Nilofar, now eight, could intuit the rhythms of wartime.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Australia has long fought beside the United States in wartime.
    Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • That wartime deal enabled Ukraine's exports to reach many countries facing the threat of hunger.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That wartime deal enabled Ukraine’s exports to reach many countries facing the threat of hunger.
    Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Trains have been used to transport the injured and ill since the 1850s, usually for soldiers in wartime.
    Alex Davies, Wired, 26 Mar. 2020
  • In wartime, shipping is banned, and the vast grain containers now stand next to the boatless river.
    Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • As Moore writes, the sad and brutal truth was that many of these women looked back on wartime as the happiest days of their lives.
    Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 19 May 2020
  • Russians have been known to have a high capacity for pain in wartime.
    Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • In 1945, a sick and exhausted FDR, who was months away from death, reasoned that wartime was no time for a party.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
  • And in wartime, those forces could pose a serious threat to NATO’s southern flank.
    David Axe, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • An election could hardly be held in wartime, and in any case, Churchill enjoyed the support of all parties.
    Vernon Bogdanor, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Airlift is fast, but relies on airfields that in wartime would need to be captured first.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2022
  • First, the United States maintained large numbers of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe for use in wartime.
    Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2023

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