Example sentences for: wwii

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

  • He had his hands full fielding telephone calls from them during WWII, when newscasters were daily faced with the problems of how to pronounce the names of people and places like von Ribbentrop, Sidi Barani, Ploesti , and Irriwaddy . Little has changed, but Cabell is long gone, and newscasters (or broadcasting networks), if they want to learn how to pronounce a name properly can usually find out by listening to BBC World Service.

  • Before WWII, Amsterdam was a major center for the buying and polishing of diamonds.

  • When enough Americans serve in uniform or when their slang is picked up by the news media as it was in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, it spreads to the general slang lexicon.

  • Across Dam Square is the stark, white National Monument, paid for by public subscription after WWII and erected in 1956.

  • You’ll also find a memorial to allied soldiers of WWII here, as the port was an evacuation point after the Battle of Crete in 1941.


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