How to Use postwar in a Sentence

postwar

adjective

• Germany’s postwar embrace of freedom is equaled only by its horror of war.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2022
• Moreover, these groups all too often were pushed out of postwar gay liberation movements.
  — Samuel Huneke, CNN, 2 June 2022
• In postwar London, three women work at a bookstore visited by the great literary figures of the age.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• Tonally, the war years clash with the luxe campiness of his postwar London love affairs, which in turn clash with the astringency of his later life.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• And 60 percent is a higher employment-population share than that recorded in most of the postwar period.
  — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• He had been stationed at frontier posts in Montana, California and Arizona during his postwar career.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 June 2022
• Coronation chicken was an oddity, however, in the postwar period.
  — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2022
• Peter Brook, the British director who revolutionized the way Shakespeare was staged in the postwar era, never rested on his laurels.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• The good court of the postwar period was an aberration.
  — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Kishida is Japan’s first postwar leader to enter a war zone.
  — Karl Ritter, ajc, 21 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The idea of Jews living in postwar Gaza may seem improbable, but Gaza hasn’t always been Jew-free.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• From the postwar boom through the Judgment of Paris in 1976, Americans enjoyed a love affair with French wine that continues to this day.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2024
• Adams: The postwar era was all about embracing fun and lightheartedness in decor.
  — Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 23 June 2023
• Much of Germany’s postwar growth has been made possible by guest workers, many of them from Turkey and North Africa.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Crucially, the postwar administration of Gaza and the West Bank will have to be unified.
  — Mohammad Shtayyeh, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024
• The summit was supposed to be a 32-nation high-five to NATO’s postwar successes.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024