How to use "postwar" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "postwar" in popular movie and book plots

  • While he waits for her injuries to heal, Mike recalls how they met in Vienna, Austria in the postwar 1940s, when he was an Army doctor.  - Never Say Goodbye (1956 film)
  • The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo.  - A Hen in the Wind
  • During his coronation, Zuko promises to aid the world in the postwar reconstruction.  - Sozin's Comet: The Final Battle
  • It is also interesting as a period piece, showing the contradictions and miseries lying behind Italy's postwar economic miracle.  - Il vedovo
  • For young servicemen who had spent six years fighting fascism, postwar Britain was a drab, oppressive place.  - Twice Brightly
  • armistice took effect, an incident soon to become notorious in postwar politics.  - The Great War: Breakthroughs
  • Aging, cynical Shunsuke is one of postwar Japan's most respected authors.  - Forbidden Colors
  • His broadcasts help provide some sense of continuity with pre-war civilization in the isolated settlements that comprise the postwar world.  - Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
  • The film switches among three different time-frames: prewar (1935), war-time (1940s), and postwar (1960s or '70s).  - The Mirror (1975 film)
  • He retains the stature of a child while living through the beginning of World War II, several love affairs, and the world of postwar Europe.  - The Tin Drum
  • The postwar Germany of his dreamlike recollection is a dystopia, dark and decaying.  - The Element of Crime
  • After 29 unexceptional postwar years he died in 1974.  - Schindler's Ark
  • In postwar Vienna, antibiotics were new and scarce outside military hospitals and commanded a very high price.  - The Third Man
  • He wants something better, but the tight postwar job market forces him to return to his old job.  - The Best Years of Our Lives
  • The Moviegoer tells the story of Binx Bolling, a young stock-broker in postwar New Orleans.  - The Moviegoer
  • When Lincoln is assassinated at Ford's Theater, his conciliatory postwar policy expires with him.  - The Birth of a Nation

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