How to Use postwar in a Sentence

postwar

adjective

• Born in 1933, Ono grew up in wartime and postwar Japan.
  — Emily Labarge, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The highways were essential to the white flight of the postwar decades.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
• Cheap repairs done in the postwar 1950s made things worse.
  — William Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• These are not the people who enjoyed the largesse of the postwar golden age.
  — James Chappel, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
• Flip-flops blew up in the United States during the postwar boom.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2021
• The property is a throwback to the early postwar boom of the late 1940s and to the rise of Modernism on the West Coast.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• In the postwar years their interest turned to abstract art.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• That's essentially the same as at this point in 2018, when midterm turnout hit a postwar high.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2022
• Early MGs were lively handlers and helped spur the postwar sportscar craze on both sides of the Atlantic.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2023
• The two goals could intersect in Netanyahu’s vague plan for a postwar Gaza.
  — Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
• Xuande grew up in Melbourne, the son of bakers who had fled postwar Vietnam.
  — Brandon Yu, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Modular homes have come a long way since their postwar roots.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 24 Mar. 2023
• Change in postwar Ireland was a bit like that, except in moral reverse.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Chikin Ramen caught on and later became one of the most prevalent foods in postwar Japan.
  — Alisa Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2021
• In the Yalta Declaration, the three leaders set the stage—or so Roosevelt thought—for the postwar world.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2020
• Now, the sources of Japan’s postwar strength look like glaring weaknesses.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 17 Aug. 2020
• Jay Garrick had been the Flash during the Golden Age, but his comics were canceled amid that postwar purge.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022
• The good court of the postwar period was an aberration.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• This marked the first time in Germany’s postwar history that a majority was achieved with the help of the far right.
  — Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
• The Ulm school helped establish Germany as a center of design in the postwar world.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2021
• The party, which has governed Japan for most of the postwar era, has never had a female leader.
  — New York Times, 3 Sep. 2021
• Many of us could make a strong case for the Miura being the most beautiful postwar Italian sports car of them all.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 July 2022
• But the plans have not been embraced by all in the 41st Ward and its neighborhoods filled with postwar bungalows and ranch-style homes.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2022
• Whiskey & Soda gets its name from a pair of lion cubs of the same names that were adopted, postwar, by members of the Lafayette Escadrille.
  — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
• Kishida is Japan’s first postwar leader to enter a war zone.
  — Karl Ritter, ajc, 21 Mar. 2023
• If the ceasefire is to lead to lasting peace, the question of postwar governance in Gaza is crucial.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
• As a response to the Nazis’ oppression, Niemöller made this postwar statement.
  — Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
• Chuck Close, one of the most important painters of the postwar era and a blue-chip name in the contemporary art world, died on Thursday at age 81.
  — Brian P. Kelly, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
• The 12-day conflict ended June 24 under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, yet postwar tensions remain high.
  — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
• Serra, whose father fought in the Resistance, but in a non-Communist brigade that never reconciled itself with the more hard-line postwar Communists, admits more than a measure of sympathy for Malaparte.
  — Thomas Meaney, New Yorker, 2 July 2025