Example sentences for: postwar

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

  • In Germany, the Süddeutsche Zeitung of Munich reported that after World War II, hundreds of German war criminals had not been put on trial in Italy because of Italian fears that such actions would sour its postwar relationship with Germany.

  • The truth is that Wieseltier's piece was a shameful, spite-ridden hatchet job on West, motivated almost entirely by the fact that West had been profiled in The New Yorker in 1994 and then assessed (along with lesser lights bell hooks and Michael Dyson) by me in a January 1995 essay that likened contemporary black intellectuals to the New York intellectuals of the postwar period.

  • That way identifies him as a playwright of the immediate postwar era, a period characterized by the anxiety of affluence, the worry that rising material status was being purchased at the expense of decency and mutual responsibility.

  • It displayed thousands of British-made things, heralding the emergence from wartime rationing into postwar consumerism.

  • Having been through those huge postwar sci-fi voting machines, and then those infernal punch-card contraptions seemingly designed to deny the franchise to the bottom nine-tenths of the bell curve, we especially enjoyed the new technological breakthrough adopted by the election board (or whoever) here in suburban Seattle.


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