Example sentences for: wwi

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

  • The Netherlands stayed neutral in WWI and efforts in the first half of the century were concentrated on land reclamation which increased agricultural production and living space.

  • A twelfth four-card family, drawn by Lewis Carroll's niece Irene Dodgson, who married John Jaques III, was included in the game during WWI and lasted till just after WWII.

  • Then we are told that heinie is “spelled as if it were Yiddish,” which shows how much Thorne knows about German spelling and pronunciation; the variant hinie is not shown (the word is, after all, a diminutive of behind: the heinie spelling probably cropped up during WWI in confusion with the similarly pronounced Heinie , a synonym for Bosch or Kraut , short for Hein-rich ). At Hicksville it might have been fun to mention that it is a placename in New York (Nassau County) and in several other states.

  • It overlooks the prow of a patrol boat that D’Annunzio commanded during WWI, the Puglia, hauled up the hillside as the crowning piece of his relics.

  • There is also a comprehensive examination of the De Stijl (The Style) art and design movement, which swept through the Netherlands in the post-WWI period.


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