postwar
IPA: pˈoʊstwˈɔr
adjective
- Alternative spelling of post-war [Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.]
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Examples of "postwar" in Sentences
- This is the worst disease of the postwar era.
- In the postwar years, the damage was repaired.
- Postwar changes in the industry and the union.
- The adaptable transport continued in postwar use.
- Work in the field has grown in the postwar years.
- The end of the war is the same as the postwar period.
- In the postwar years the city was rebuilt and expanded.
- One of the most important changes was the postwar economy.
- In the postwar period, she immigrated to the United States.
- However, there would be no postwar crisis of overproduction.
- In 1947, they began collecting clothes for children in postwar Europe.
- This is a fine book, but it is far from the only "carnivalesque" novel to be found in postwar fiction.
- It also makes The Subterrraneans itself an important text both in postwar American fiction and American literature as a whole.
- “The rise of the creative-writing program,” he says, “stands as the most important event in postwar American literary history.”
- The lyric by Enrique Santos Discepolo, master composer of the tango, sums up the situation here just as it did in postwar Buenos Aires:
- Both The Angel's Game and Shadow of the Wind are translated into English by Lucia Graves (daughter of poet and I, Claudius author Robert Graves); who was raised on the island of Majorca in postwar Spain.
- It was a part that captured a peculiarly repellent side of the Reagan-Thatcher era and it rightly brought Michael Douglas an Oscar for outdoing the hyperactive villains his father, Kirk, played in postwar melodramas.