world war
Example Sentences
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Gramma, a Galápagos tortoise whose life at the San Diego Zoo spanned more than 20 presidents, two world wars and two pandemics, has died.
From Los Angeles Times
In the aftermath of the two world wars, Coleridge-Taylor’s music—like that of other late Victorian and Edwardian composers—was seen as old-fashioned and insufficiently complex.
Mr Crook, from NFFF, said fish and chips are a "big part of British culture", adding they "kept the nation going during two world wars".
From BBC
“It’s a war of big ideas. It’s a revolution, it’s a world war and it’s a brutal, ugly, vicious, 18th century war.”
From Los Angeles Times
Cole’s, which survived the Great Depression and two world wars but couldn’t withstand the current economy, will shutter Dec. 31, though the venue is currently up for sale.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
