Words similar to pre-war

Example sentences for: pre-war

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

The new US Embassy is being built nearby, on land originally occupied by that country’s pre-war embassy, and a large stretch of ground leading towards Potsdamer Platz has been designated as the site of a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
• The use of car for a tram was certainly common in Norfolk (U.K.) before WWII--I can still picture surviving pre-war signs reading Cars stop here upon request, upon what by then were bus stops, in my home town of Gt Yarmouth in the 1940s.
or the post-war Literary Club on Atwood Street above the pre-war clothing store, and ate hot sausage sandwiches and cold buttermilk across the street from the first Carnegie Library
HEAVY PLANT CROSSING must surely mean `the biggest aspidistra in the world' while FARM CROSSING recalls the sad pre-war dust bowl joke of the American prairie:
His efforts to insinuate himself were so relentless that Cary Reich, the author of this sprawling new biography (and of an earlier biography of the financier André Meyer), refers to his subject as a "patrician Sammy Glick" (though he never reaches the heights of heeldom demonstrated by the hero of Budd Schulberg's novel about pre-war Hollywood back-stabbing).