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:

  • A smart opinion piece in the Journal argues that Buchanan is not an American populist so much as a pre-war, European-style Christian Socialist like Karl Lueger, Vienna's turn-of-the-century mayor.

  • And ER was talking about the redress of some of the more shameful circumstances of pre-war life: lynching, child labor, total segregation, pervasive poverty.

  • “Alex,” as the huge square is known, was once the undisputed heart of pre-war Berlin, and its vibrancy was celebrated in Alfred Döblin’s great 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, later filmed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

  • • 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.

  • 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:


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