How to Use wartime in a Sentence

wartime

noun
  • Many goods were rationed during wartime.
  • In wartime, the priority goes to the troops on the field.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Supreme Court has upheld past uses of that law in wartime.
    Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • In wartime, the Black Sea could become a shooting gallery.
    David Axe, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • In the past, when there were such problems, like wartime, it has been canceled.
    Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2020
  • There’s a sense of wartime in the background, and a sense of inevitability.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
  • Over the past two weeks, some have learned that their conclusions are of less use in wartime.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The author starts right in with the reality of wartime.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • In 1945, wartime restrictions forced it to be pushed back by one month.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 2 May 2020
  • This book is more than an account of Boston in wartime.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Bill had not served during wartime, but the battle metaphors still came easy.
    Tiffany Stanley, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • In wartime, the arrival of those things is not guaranteed.
    Ramin Skibba, Wired, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Here’s younger Sally in early wartime, aboard a ship shuttling GIs to the front.
    Joan Frank, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Thirty-eight of the women were killed in wartime service.
    Fox News, 8 June 2019
  • Another was that a child had to have been killed during wartime.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2020
  • One of the reasons to close the borders in wartime is to keep conscription-age men inside the country.
    Howard Amos, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Rules for soldier conduct in wartime then fell under the Lieber Code.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The current crisis does not approach the upheaval of wartime.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2020
  • In wartime, some of the pilots in the competition were heroes.
    Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The Mann of wartime could not have written the sentence that awakens Hans Castorp from his dream.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Nilofar, now eight, could intuit the rhythms of wartime.
    Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Australia has long fought beside the United States in wartime.
    Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • That wartime deal enabled Ukraine's exports to reach many countries facing the threat of hunger.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That wartime deal enabled Ukraine’s exports to reach many countries facing the threat of hunger.
    Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The Olympics have been canceled only three times, all during wartime.
    Yuri Kageyama and Mari Yamaguchi, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Trains have been used to transport the injured and ill since the 1850s, usually for soldiers in wartime.
    Alex Davies, Wired, 26 Mar. 2020
  • In wartime, shipping is banned, and the vast grain containers now stand next to the boatless river.
    Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024
  • As Moore writes, the sad and brutal truth was that many of these women looked back on wartime as the happiest days of their lives.
    Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 19 May 2020
  • Russians have been known to have a high capacity for pain in wartime.
    Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Even many of the materials that were used to construct these buildings — a lot of it was developed for wartime.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2024

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