How to Use interwar in a Sentence

interwar

adjective
  • There is no longer any such thing as the relative calm of an interwar period.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In this interwar psychological thriller, the writing is as clear as gin and as sharp as lemon.
    The Week Uk, theweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • For the same nexus was at play when democracy collapsed in interwar Europe.
    Thomas Weber, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Washington tried this approach before, in the interwar years.
    Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2025
  • He’s born in interwar England, among mahogany, silver, and ermine, with a full-time nurse and entrée to one of the finest schools in the land.
    Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Macron fears that a Ukrainian victory could give way to a dangerous, modern-day interwar period.
    Michael Mazza and Shay Khatiri, Washington Examiner, 1 June 2023
  • The fascist leaders of interwar Europe were experts in spellbinding.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Pogroms continued throughout the interwar period, leading up to the Holocaust, and beyond it.
    Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
  • She was particularly intrigued by the fact that the interwar period was considered by some to be the city’s golden age and that gangsters flourished during that time.
    NBC News, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The men and women whose political visions were formed in the interwar period carried those ideals forward into the Cold War era.
    Tony Wood, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Its purpose is to degrade the capabilities of Iran and its key regional allies in any interwar period.
    Amy McAuliffe, The Conversation, 26 June 2026
  • This piece, one of the most elaborate, was inspired by the marquetry of the interwar furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The devastation of the interwar decades brought them both to appreciate imperiled democracy.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • During the interwar period, the western region came under Polish control.
    Anton Grushetskyi, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The other element that defined Thanksgiving was the advertising and art during the interwar and post war period.
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Italy and Japan also created several tank designs during the interwar years and the first few years of WWII.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
  • While the phrase hat trick remains in cricket, hat prizes themselves began to disappear in the early 1900s, during the interwar period.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Born in Alsace, Cahn lived from 1895 to 1981 and was one of the few women artists in the avant-garde, interwar Paris scene.
    Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 15 June 2026
  • But how did an avant-garde art movement associated with interwar intellectuals become a trending aesthetic?
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The Allies similarly developed multiple tanks in the interwar years for various combat roles.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
  • Having spent the interwar period yo-yoing between the divisions, United emerged from the Second World War in fine fettle on the pitch but a mess off it.
    Matt Slater, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
  • There’s an in-house elevator, for instance, which can fit a quartet of passengers along with central air conditioning, a rarity during the interwar period.
    David Kaufman, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Basketball’s influence on Black culture continued to grow throughout the interwar period.
    Jared Bahir Browsh, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Most are silent and at least a century old, and almost all of them are the product of artists tapped into a tortured national psyche during the unsavory historical moment of interwar Germany.
    Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Soviets produced many tank designs during the interwar years, which were similarly grouped based on the infantry/cavalry classification scheme.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
  • And while the selections were bound by time and place — the percolating center of interwar artistic culture that was Paris in the 1920s — the real connective threads went deeper.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • How did the virulent nationalism and fraught politics of France’s interwar period—no less racked by crisis than its nuclear-era dénouement—inform the artist’s approach to figure and form?
    Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • In addition to a reverential rendering of the literary scene at the bookstore, Maher vividly evokes the free-wheeling Parisian social life of the interwar period.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Objectivity became enshrined as a journalistic ideal in the nineteen-twenties, precisely when these interwar journalists launched themselves into the world.
    Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Unlike the 1940 Disney classic, Del Toro’s movie takes place in Italy during the interwar period as fascism began to take hold of the country.
    Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022

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