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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Truman did so to end a world war in which perhaps 75 million people died, most of them civilians.
    Michael Krepon, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The village memorial counts 67 villagers lost in two world wars.
    The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Inside is a Soviet-era bunker, a relic of the last world war, and recently unsealed for the first time in 70 years.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2022

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