Example sentences for: post-war

How can you use “post-war” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Lockheed's reputation was really made during World War II, when the company built both the C-69 Constellation transport (which became the standard for civil airlines in the immediate post-war period) and, more impressively, the P-38 Lightning fighter.

  • Henry Kissinger, perhaps the most influential of post-war foreign policy thinkers, recently warned against further European integration."

  • Crowning seven hills along the winding banks of the River Tiber, Rome has numerous different personalities: ancient Rome of imperial ruins; Catholic Rome of Vatican City and countless churches; the Renaissance city of Michelangelo and Raphael or the Baroque of Bernini and Borromini; and a modern metropolis of interminable traffic jams, fashionable boutiques and cafés, as well as factories and characterless apartment buildings that make up the post-war eye-sore suburbs.

  • The sordid hardships of post-war Italy — unemployment, the black market, and prostitution — have been made graphically familiar through the brilliant neo-realist cinema of Rossellini, de Sica, and Fellini.

  • "American cockiness over its display of military technology in the Gulf and Yugoslavia, and smugness over its longest post-war prosperity streak, can blind it to a need to cultivate its relations with Russia beyond promoting democratisation.


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