NOUN
- a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
How To Use First World War In A Sentence
- It was built as a Methodist chapel in 1910, became a convalescence hospital during the First World War, and was later partly used as a billiard hall.
- My father, who fought in the First World War, described fear as not so much a sick feeling as a heightening of the senses.
- Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
- Most English historians were cured of such flatulent emotion by the carnage of the first world war, the desolation of the great slump and the perilously tight margin of victory in the second world war.
- It was famously sung in the trenches of the First World War by Welsh regiments to keep their spirits up, and it's a firm favourite with Welsh rugby crowds.
- It is perhaps apocalyptic only in its contiguity with the chaos of actual war and the apocalypse of the First World War.
- His social radicalism took shape after the First World War.
- ‘What a very boring man, obsessed with the first world war,’ he says, all self-mockery, behind his cluttered desk in Private Eye's defiantly unmodernised Soho townhouse.
- After the First World War the coverage of unemployment insurance was extended and a contributory pension scheme was introduced.
- Each passing year leaves us with fewer veterans of the First World War to describe eye-witness accounts of the horror, bravery and comradeship at the front.
