Examples of First World War in a Sentence
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France’s entry into the First World War, in 1914, derailed the première, and the full score was lost.
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The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
Creation Originale Language: French, German A mysterious group of French soldiers with superhuman abilities are sent on an undercover mission to put an end to the First World War.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
During the First World War, the house was shattered by shelling.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024
Daylight saving time was introduced in the United States in 1918 with the Standard Time Act, which was meant to lower fuel costs during the First World War.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2024
The mature poetry of Wilfred Owen, who was killed in action at the age of twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
The first cycle starts with the breakdown of the economic order that existed before the First World War that many countries tried to restore after 1918.
—Martin Daunton, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
His father had been killed in the First World War; his mother was a nightmare.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
Kate Birkbeck is a PhD candidate at Yale University writing a dissertation about the international arms trade, federal policy and local armed groups across the American Empire between the Civil War and the First World War.
—TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
Creation Originale Language: French, German A mysterious group of French soldiers with superhuman abilities are sent on an undercover mission to put an end to the First World War.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
During the First World War, the house was shattered by shelling.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024
Daylight saving time was introduced in the United States in 1918 with the Standard Time Act, which was meant to lower fuel costs during the First World War.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2024
The mature poetry of Wilfred Owen, who was killed in action at the age of twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
The first cycle starts with the breakdown of the economic order that existed before the First World War that many countries tried to restore after 1918.
—Martin Daunton, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
His father had been killed in the First World War; his mother was a nightmare.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
Kate Birkbeck is a PhD candidate at Yale University writing a dissertation about the international arms trade, federal policy and local armed groups across the American Empire between the Civil War and the First World War.
—TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
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