How to Use world war in a Sentence

world war

noun

• The nations were prepared for world war.
• He fought in both World Wars.
• Gurkhas went on to fight for the British in both world wars and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• The specter of world war is concerning, but the draft isn't.
  — Heather Ainsworth For Cnn, CNN, 19 Mar. 2022
• The result was a world war that lasted four years and led to the loss of tens of millions of lives.
  — Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 17 July 2024
• And this world war will, before too long, looks like it will be won.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
• Up to 50m died, more than were killed in combat in the two world wars combined.
  — The Economist, 18 Apr. 2020
• During both world wars and the Cold War, the Arctic was a key theater.
  — Elizabeth Buchanan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
• By the time On the Marble Cliffs was at the printers, Jünger was in the thick of another world war.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
• Or consider 1942, in the depths of a world war that was killing millions.
  — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
• What came after—a world war and the 1950s—was a more sober, nose-to-the-grindstone economic era.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• Two world wars have been fought over borders in Europe.
  — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• But its origins were as a backup in case of chaos caused by real-world war.
  — Mike Snider and Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2020
• Other than a world war, this is the worst thing that’s happened in over a century.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2020
• But after world war two, lots of things came together to stop it.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• Some voters worried about the fighting in the Middle East and Ukraine starting a third world war.
  — Fatima Hussein and Josh Boak, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• Both are struggling to make gains and have been burning through munitions at rates not seen since the two world wars.
  — Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2023
• While there's no world war now, Covid-19 has proven young people can still be hit hard -- even if their risk of death is much lower.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
• This is part of a trend in a museums across the world to return things that were looted during world war two.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 May 2022
• Murray compared the vaccine effort to sending a man to the moon or fighting a world war.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2020
• The pandemic certainly did this, as have world wars and 9/11.
  — Kyla Mandel, Time, 27 July 2023
• Such a move, the president has said, would risk another world war.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• Through civil war, the Great Depression, world war, 9/11.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2021
• Europe is full of reminders about what a world war can look like, and now those places are taking on new meaning.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• It has been further entrenched by the legacy of two world wars and the conflicts surrounding the breakup of Yugoslavia.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• The Ryder Cup has only been stopped by a world war and terrorist attacks.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2021
• The use of nuclear weapons has huge disadvantages besides the threat of all-out world war.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2022
• The political boundaries are based on a 1934 map, stuck in time between two world wars.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2018
• There is an unwritten rule that no world war can break out during a Super Bowl.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2022
• In the 300 years since then, the vault has survived numerous threats, including world wars, lootings and bombings.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024