How to Use Second World War in a Sentence

Second World War

noun

• The past two years have seen the most conflicts of any time since the end of the Second World War.
  — Paul Poast, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023
• It was also shared on the eve of the anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 May 2024
• Austria saw a far-right party come first in an election for the first time since the Second World War.
  — Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• Europe endured one of its most tumultuous years since the end of the Second World War in 2022.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Nov. 2023
• But in the aerial campaigns of the Second World War, what was the value of judging intentions?
  — Malcolm Gladwell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• More than two years into the largest state-on-state conflict since the Second World War, perhaps the greater wonder is that anyone does.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 June 2024
• Any student of history knows the basic outline of the Second World War.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
• That exceeds the peak the country reached in the Second World War, the highest level ever in our history.
  — Robert Hormats, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
• Our hunger, since the Second World War, has become rapacious.
  — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Birch said that more unexploded missiles and bombs have fallen in Gaza than anywhere in the world since at least the Second World War.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
• The most famous example came in his classic debut novel of the Second World War, Catch-22.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 24 Aug. 2023
• What was her life actually like during the Second World War?
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2024
• Gathered below are a handful of images of some of the many ways people put bicycles to use during the Second World War.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
• At the end of the Second World War, the French composer, who had been held for a year in a prisoner of war camp, found his wife had had a mental breakdown and was in declining health.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• Years later, the Second World War broke out, and the British government evacuated the city’s children to the countryside.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• During the Second World War, with factories running around the clock, there was a tremendous demand for workers.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Clearly, the filmmakers want to send the viewer out on another high, although there’s not so much to smile about as the Second World War section of the story is tied up.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
• After the defeat of Japan in the Second World War, when the country was in ruins, the new democratic government stepped up this transformation.
  — Johann Hari, TIME, 9 May 2024
• Sails have been propelling ships all over the world for millennia and were still used for commercial transport until after the Second World War.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 31 July 2024
• His bitter resentment at this upheaval is startling, even in the annals of Second World War cinema, where fraught farewells in crowded train stations abound.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
• But that's a difficult message for an electorate already labouring under a tax burden now at its highest level since the Second World War.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 29 June 2024
• Just before the Second World War, Hitler’s actions elicit anger and admiration among the members of the titular gentleman’s club.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 19 Aug. 2024
• Three: in the stale air of the tween decks, my grandmother, a young woman who has just survived the Second World War, plays four color cards with other women in an enclave constructed with their belongings.
  — Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
• Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the Second World War.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
• Following the Second World War, the concept of adolescence as a unique life stage was bolstered by advertisers who saw profit potential in targeting a teen market.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
• By the end of the Second World War, makeup had become wholesome, even patriotic, albeit decidedly feminine.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2024
• My earliest memories are looking at photographs in newspapers, or in my dad’s encyclopedia, and realizing my world in Düsseldorf, which was ninety per cent destroyed [during the Second World War], was not like the rest of the world.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• The company first engaged in rice milling, mining, and shipping, then expanded to manufacturing, packaging, and distribution after the Second World War.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 11 Oct. 2024
• Founded by three veterans of the Second World War with zero journalistic or publishing experience, this paper would conjure its authority by other than the usual means.
  — Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• From the Second World War through the nineteen-nineties, military deployments were usually accompanied by diplomatic initiatives.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024