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
• Here’s younger Sally in early wartime, aboard a ship shuttling GIs to the front.
  — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• Thirty-eight of the women were killed in wartime service.
  — Fox News, 8 June 2019
• Even in wartime, the music plays—and who can listen to rumba without a beer?
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The Mann of wartime could not have written the sentence that awakens Hans Castorp from his dream.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
• 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.
  — Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
• 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
• The Olympics have been canceled only three times, all during wartime.
  — Yuri Kageyama and Mari Yamaguchi, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Weiss posed at the hotel’s lobby staircase, central courtyard and the Churchill Suite, which was once the site of private cabinet meetings led by Churchill during wartime.
  — Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 9 Dec. 2024
• Inflation in Russia is above eight percent as the economy overheats due to heavy wartime spending and a dwindling labor supply, forcing the central bank to raise interest rates to more than 20 percent.
  — Theodore Bunzel, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2025