How to Use the Cold War in a Sentence

the Cold War

noun

• Peter Wright was one of the good guys during the Cold War.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 29 May 2024
• Marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024
• But as the logic of the Cold War took hold, those hopes curdled.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• The early stages of the flying saucer age really is the story of the start of the Cold War.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The same was true for the eight years since the Cold War ended, pace Huntington.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
• Once again, the White House was well aware of the detrimental effect these events had when viewed through the Cold War lens.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• Did the Cold War and the need to get capable planes in service add any sense of urgency to the job?
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
• But during the Cold War, we were often seen as brutish and heavy-handed.
  — TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
• The series addresses the Cold War which is often still seen in black-and-white.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• The main thing that was going on in the world was the Cold War, and then these guys were trying to pretend like they weren’t involved.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• At the height of the Cold War, many free services were seen as supporting communist ideals.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 May 2024
• In 1973, in the throes of the Cold War, the notion that nations and ideologies would be incidental might have seemed like the stuff of pulpy sci-fi.
  — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
• There was a growing sense among the Russian élite that the results of the Cold War needed to be revisited.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• After the Cold War, production dropped to a few hundred million rounds a year.
  — Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• His belief in the game’s potential eventually leads him to the Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold War.
  — Vulture, 17 Feb. 2023
• The movie centers around the fictional invention of the Pop-Tart and takes inspiration from the Cold War and space era.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
• Today’s war in Ukraine and past conflicts during the Cold War share this structural constraint.
  — Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
• During the Cold War, a heated debate arose over the role of economic planning.
  — Daniel Pellathy, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
• Well, sports tech has come a long way since Rocky ended the Cold War, and what used to be reserved for top competitors has filtered down to kids’ leagues.
  — Michael Schreiber, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• During the Cold War, though, this rocket was part of a dangerous class of nuclear weapons.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• The site is one of hundreds around the nation built to defend the U.S. from what were perceived as serious foreign threats during the Cold War.
  — Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2023
• The death of Lumumba was a signal moment of both the Cold War and decolonization, two defining events of the post-1945 world.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Reagan and Mulroney became friends as two national leaders during the last decade of the Cold War.
  — Rob Gillies, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
• Since the end of the Cold War, states and civil society organizations have called on the UN to deal with conflicts large and small as a matter of habit.
  — Richard Gowan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023
• Ronald Reagan famously won the Cold War without firing a shot.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
• Russia prisoner swap Follow live updates on the largest prisoner exchange since the height of the Cold War.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
• The prospect of a direct war between two or more of the world’s great powers, something that has been avoided for 78 years and counting, seems more likely now than at any time since the end of the Cold War.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
• The entertainment industry has grappled with the threat of nuclear war since the Cold War.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• For the first time since the end of the Cold War, presidential candidates may be asked about nuclear weapons, arms races, and even nuclear war.
  — Ankit Panda, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
• Fights over fish are not new: during the Cold War, for instance, countries that were otherwise aligned clashed frequently over fisheries.
  — Sarah Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024