pre civil war

How to use pre civil war in a sentence

• Life for most Syrian children is a pale, unhappy imitation of their pre-civil war existence.

  Syria’s Female Refugee Soccer Stars | Peter Schwartzstein | March 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• No, to find obstinacy like this, you have to go back, yes, to the pre-Civil War era.

  What’s Really Obstructing Obamacare? GOP Resisters | Michael Tomasky | November 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• His four thousand dollars a year in these pre-Civil-War times was considerable.

  The Financier | Theodore Dreiser