Example sentences for: postwar

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

  • The advertising and fashion industries, after all, are not representative of "postwar American capitalism."

  • A poetic homage, for sure, since the two writers exemplify the stylistic divide between the confessional poets of the postwar United States (count Lowell, Berryman, Jarrell, Sexton, and others) and their more objective British counterparts (think of Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, etc.).

  • I must thank David Greenberg for the fascinating "History Lesson" ("") on the postwar Jewish "Revenge Group," but I disagree that such an organized and, frankly, insane plan has much in common with the revenge killings by Albanians (we assume) of Serbs in present-day Kosovo.

  • On both counts, prewar anti-clericalism and postwar apocalyptic angst gave the Surrealists and Dubuffet, respectively, historic urgency lacking in the gratuitous neo-primitivism of Ofili.

  • It is the Gibbonesque chronicle of the rise and fall of New York night life from the postwar period to the present.


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