How to Use World War I in a Sentence

World War I

noun
  • What if people got drafted into World War I via spam text?
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Some sought an escape from the ghosts of World War I; others hoped the tropical climate would prove restorative.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Her father lost a leg in World War I, her mother was born out of wedlock, and her grandmother once labored in a workhouse for the poor.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Jones' grandfather died in World War I and is buried in France.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • The beginning of the 20th century saw the start of World War I, which meant rationing.
    Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Mourning, and then World War I, meant touring in Europe was out of the question.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Two were fraternal twins who served in World War I and practiced law.
    Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2024
  • In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend.
    WIRED, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Dumping at sea, a practice held over from World War I, was the obvious choice.
    Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Burlesque flourished through World War I, but things changed with the Depression.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024
  • Freud wrote about the uncanny in 1919, months after the end of World War I, which had left millions dead and Europe in ruins.
    Joshua Glass, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Prior to World War I, many Americans didn’t maintain consistent spellings of their first and last names.
    Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • This, of course, had to do with the fact—in 2020 and just after World War I, when the novel was published—that the world was entering a confusing new age of anxiety.
    Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Plastic surgery became more important with the advent of trench warfare in World War I, when bullets could strike people in the face in the trenches.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • His passion for aviation started early, and after a first ride at age 13 in an old World War I trainer, Mack was hooked.
    Paul Glenshaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • The sub, built during World War I, was recommissioned a couple months before it was tested for action at a deeper depth.
    Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2024
  • The World War I monument was defaced with pro-Palestinian stickers.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 10 May 2024
  • After extensive work and a test flight, the plane was put on a boat and shipped back to Massachusetts, arriving in time for last year’s World War I aviation event.
    Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Surrealism’s origins are in the collective trauma of World War I and the global flu epidemic of 1918.
    Cath Pound, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Hoover had dispatched the military to break up a camp of World War I veterans who had massed to demand immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for serving.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Coming on the heels of the end of World War I and the global upheaval that ensued, that era led to a postwar boom with many finding prosperity and new opportunities.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 13 June 2024
  • Her father, Harry, was a telegraph operator during World War I and then a furrier who brought the family west in the mid-1930s.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
  • While aerial combat emerged as a powerful tool during World War I, technological advancements in the decades since had opened up the skies as a new front.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Not surprisingly for a book about World War I, the story told here is filled with the exploits of male figures and infused with a palpable masculine energy.
    Vaughn Rasberry, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • During World War I, many of the grave artifacts that archaeologists had preserved were destroyed.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Trump reportedly said when refusing to visit the graves of World War I casualties.
    John Lawrence, Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2024
  • Etienne, for example, is traumatized by World War I and has spent decades holed up in his house, communicating with the outside world only through his radio.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Beginning with widespread use during World War I, sulfur mustard has had a long history of use as a chemical warfare agent.
    New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Branagh’s Poirot, himself a World War I veteran, has bared his own physical and psychological scars in this series before.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The Scottish physician treated soldiers during World War I, when the frontline treatment for infected wounds were harsh antiseptics that often did more harm than good.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024

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