How to Use postwar in a Sentence

postwar

adjective
  • Born in 1933, Ono grew up in wartime and postwar Japan.
    — Emily Labarge, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The highways were essential to the white flight of the postwar decades.
    — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Cheap repairs done in the postwar 1950s made things worse.
    — William Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • These are not the people who enjoyed the largesse of the postwar golden age.
    — James Chappel, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • In the postwar years their interest turned to abstract art.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • That's essentially the same as at this point in 2018, when midterm turnout hit a postwar high.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Early MGs were lively handlers and helped spur the postwar sportscar craze on both sides of the Atlantic.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The two goals could intersect in Netanyahu’s vague plan for a postwar Gaza.
    — Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Xuande grew up in Melbourne, the son of bakers who had fled postwar Vietnam.
    — Brandon Yu, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Modular homes have come a long way since their postwar roots.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Change in postwar Ireland was a bit like that, except in moral reverse.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Chikin Ramen caught on and later became one of the most prevalent foods in postwar Japan.
    — Alisa Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Jay Garrick had been the Flash during the Golden Age, but his comics were canceled amid that postwar purge.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The good court of the postwar period was an aberration.
    — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • This marked the first time in Germany’s postwar history that a majority was achieved with the help of the far right.
    — Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The Ulm school helped establish Germany as a center of design in the postwar world.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2021
  • The party, which has governed Japan for most of the postwar era, has never had a female leader.
    — New York Times, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Many of us could make a strong case for the Miura being the most beautiful postwar Italian sports car of them all.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 July 2022
  • But the plans have not been embraced by all in the 41st Ward and its neighborhoods filled with postwar bungalows and ranch-style homes.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2022
  • Kishida is Japan’s first postwar leader to enter a war zone.
    — Karl Ritter, ajc, 21 Mar. 2023
  • If the ceasefire is to lead to lasting peace, the question of postwar governance in Gaza is crucial.
    — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Chuck Close, one of the most important painters of the postwar era and a blue-chip name in the contemporary art world, died on Thursday at age 81.
    — Brian P. Kelly, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Still, others look forward to a postwar process of renewal and growth.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2025
  • At the time, the suburbs were pushing beyond the first wave of postwar, track-house developments.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In the postwar era, thousands of people turned out in the sweltering summer heat to watch women play ball.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • By the 1950s, with the postwar economic surge underway, the all-out shopping spree began in earnest.
    — Jay Parini, CNN, 20 Dec. 2021
  • There is still no consensus on how to govern postwar Gaza.
    — Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024
  • As Schaefer asks, What was the nature of the performance of striptease in postwar burlesque films?
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024
  • Another is the postwar Red Scare, when the federal government was weaponized against the American left.
    — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • British postwar cinema will serve as the focus of the retrospective programme at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025

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