How to Use postwar in a Sentence

postwar

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• 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
• In the postwar years their interest turned to abstract art.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Modular homes have come a long way since their postwar roots.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 24 Mar. 2023
• Kishida is Japan’s first postwar leader to enter a war zone.
  — Karl Ritter, ajc, 21 Mar. 2023
• The idea of Jews living in postwar Gaza may seem improbable, but Gaza hasn’t always been Jew-free.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• From the postwar boom through the Judgment of Paris in 1976, Americans enjoyed a love affair with French wine that continues to this day.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2024
• Adams: The postwar era was all about embracing fun and lightheartedness in decor.
  — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023
• Much of Germany’s postwar growth has been made possible by guest workers, many of them from Turkey and North Africa.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The new pavilion’s second floor will focus on the postwar period from 1945 to today.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Lloyd Webber was born in postwar London to a family of music lovers.
  — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023
• The populations that had defined the postwar decades could be seen as a kind of placeholder, until the eleventh-hour rescue.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Parts of a postwar Gaza could long be dangerous to inhabit, let alone rebuild.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• More than 200 paintings, sculptures and drawings — with the odd photograph thrown in, and a plan to rotate some artworks — trace the flow of ideas from early modernism to the postwar era.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• Washington and Jerusalem disagree on their visions of postwar Gaza.
  — Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2023
• Eight years into the postwar sanctions imposed on the nation, Baghdad was dusty, broken, and hungry.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
• Stealth was the great disruptor in the realm of postwar air warfare, shifting the balance of power from the defender back toward the attacker.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
• Gardiner’s postwar work also saved many lives—but, until now, Buttinger has received most of the recognition.
  — Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• Optimistic that Ukraine will prevail in the war, the researchers are already planning for this greener postwar future.
  — Byapril Reese, science.org, 19 Apr. 2023
• Today, past and present collide at the Shag House, which is a testament to sunny midcentury Palm Springs and the postwar optimism of that time.
  — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• But Netanyahu has not only rejected the path, but also the idea of a postwar Palestinian state in general.
  — NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
• The legal footing for these troop deployments was the postwar settlement at Potsdam.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• But for any postwar order to take shape, Hamas’s command-and-control system must be broken—and that outcome is far from guaranteed.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Coinciding with postwar prosperity, the Jacuzzi reached the market at the perfect time.
  — Saskia Solomon, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Collectively, this scene was the incubator for some of the greatest songwriting talents of the postwar era.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• Letters from the camps indicate that some Shinto practices survived there, even without priests, but largely faded from view in the postwar era.
  — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2023
• After Japan surrenders in 1945, the KPG’s efforts reverberate through the postwar era in ways both true and fictional.
  — Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• While East Germany was a product of Germany’s postwar occupation, its roots stretch back to the origins of socialism.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• As was true for all the major studios in the postwar era, Paramount underwent a gradual erosion of brand identity.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024