Example sentences for: prewar

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

  • Virtually the whole county of Westchester below Interstate 287 is prewar buildings--it could be a movie set.

  • 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.

  • Can any postwar song match this prewar stanza from lyricist Leon Robin: "Venus de Milo/ Was noted for her charms/ But strictly between us/ You're cuter than Venus/ And what's more, you've got arms"?

  • You like prewar buildings?

  • Also, as long as I'm on parochial issues, it is freezing cold here, and the radiators in my apartment are making those knocking and whispering noises that make all prewar buildings in Manhattan seem like they were built on Native American graveyards.


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