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
• 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
• 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
• In wartime, some of the pilots in the competition were heroes.
  — Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• 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
• In wartime, shipping is banned, and the vast grain containers now stand next to the boatless river.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
• Russians have been known to have a high capacity for pain in wartime.
  — Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• 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
• The book in wartime is a vast subject, and Pettegree wisely restricts his scope.
  — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• The group must then try to free themselves from the clutches of the Galactic Empire to seek peace and freedom during wartime.
  — Rudie Obias, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
• In the basement of a student library in Pristina, a wall is covered with the names of all 1,133 children killed or missing in wartime.
  — Nina Strochlic, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• The plot is intricate and ingenious, and the scenes of street life and wartime, and the inner battles of the characters, are vividly drawn.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 1 July 2023
• So this notion of peacetime/wartime doesn't fully resonate with me.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
• The officer apologized, and explained that, in wartime, the prison was one of the few places where so many people could be housed and processed at once.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Strong language has always been a feature of wartime, Musgrave says.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• The songs consist of themes ranging from climate change to wartime to fear of mortality.
  — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• In wartime, this could allow a ship to stay on station, ready for action, for far longer, while still taking on fresh supplies.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2023
• While forged in wartime, the knowledge needed to create a commando-style sole was not kept top-secret.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2022
• During wartime, though, there’s a cost to being a generation that tries.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2022
• There is no script for first ladies in wartime, and so Olena Zelenska is writing her own.
  — Rachel Donadio, Vogue, 26 July 2022
• Because this fleet is only called on in wartime, there is a tendency to neglect it in peacetime.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• In the early 1960s, the temporary wartime housing was replaced by a half-dozen high- and low- rise apartment buildings called Marin City Projects.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2023
• The two politicians have formed a unity wartime government since the attack that killed at least 1,300 people in Israel.
  — Rebecca Shabad, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2023
• Within hours of the attack, Russia pulled out of a year old wartime deal that allowed Ukraine to export its grain to global markets.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024