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• In wartime everything is done on a day-to-day basis because you can never plan ahead.From the entry on a day-to-day basis
• The film includes a wink to wartime rationing.From the entry wink
• So Sunak will try to muddle through, adopting Winston Churchill’s wartime mantra “KBO” (keep buggering on).2022 November 30, Andrew Grice, “Rishi Sunak is trying to govern the ungovernable”, in The Independent. From the entry KBO
• Politicians insist that lockdown under coronavirus is like the experience of wartime.2020 April 19, Neal Ascherson, “After the crisis, a new world won’t emerge as if by magic. We will have to fight for it”, in The Guardian…. From the entry Luftwaffe
• Lewis would look in and select his 'target for tonight', echoing the wartime RAF propaganda film.2017, Nick Triplow, Getting Carter: Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir. From the entry target for tonight
• The ceremony took place in a wartime setting with the cathedral stripped of many of its treasures.2012, Dennis A. Castillo, “The Summer of 1942”, in The Santa Marija Convoy: Faith and Endurance in Wartime Malta, 1940–1942, Lanham, Md.…. From the entry karozzin
• Originally, a tiny wartime house sat on the corner lot facing on Dunsmure St.2008 December 20, Tracy Hanes, “Christmas comes early for Hamilton family”, in The Star, Toronto, Canada, retrieved 11 Jun 2014. From the entry wartime house
• Complex viruses that cripple communication networks and wartime operations are another cyberweapon.2000, Kevin Bowyer, Ethics and computing: living responsibly in a computerized world. From the entry cyberweapon
• But for dark wartime romance, the Center sat atop my epochʼs cultural repertoire, undislodgeable.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 196. From the entry undislodgeable
• Both bills provide for a new cold war hostile fire pay, similar to wartime combat pay.1963 August 7, “Now It's Up To House: All Senators OK Fatter Service Pay Checks Oct. 1”, in Spartanburg Herald Journal, USA, retrieved 14…. From the entry combat pay
• Ealing comedy was a reaction against the sort of earnest fare the Ealing Studios themselves had produced in wartime.2023 July 27, David Stubbs, Different Times: A History of British Comedy, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 1886. From the entry Ealing comedy
• Washington this week is in full wartime footing.2022 November 29, Jonathan Turley, “Elon Musk triggers liberals, sends them into wartime footing over free speech”, in Fox News. From the entry wartime footing
• Early closing was introduced during World War One, when wartime patriotism and austerity and a general temperance mood impelled its introduction.2007, D. Kirkby, T. Luckins, Dining On Turtles: Food Feasts and Drinking in History, Springer, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry six o'clock swill
• The house that inspired this prayer is a small wartime house in a working-class neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta.2005, Gregory A. Scofield, Singing Home the Bones, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry wartime house
• Loose Lips Sink Ships, said the wartime poster.2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, Anchor, published 2007, →ISBN, page 448. From the entry loose lips sink ships
• He had been warming his feet by the fire when his toecaps - a wartime economy measure - burst into flames.1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5. From the entry toecap
• They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry mycotoxin
• “Capstoned” units are now able to train and plan in peacetime with the command with which they will fight in wartime.1981, Army Reserve Magazine, volumes 27-28, page 24. From the entry capstone
• Heavy balletomane audience was on hand, generous in its applause welcoming back this unique troupe after a five-year wartime absence.1946 December 14, Frank Gill, “Jooss Ballet Juice In Return to B'way”, in The Billboard, volume 58, number 50, page 48. From the entry terp
• It may be wartime, but Miss Adolescent wants her fun!1944, Noel Streatfeild, Theatre Shoes. From the entry adolescent
• Let friendly music-making be the rule everywhere during wartime, and in it musicians must just now try to be particularly mankindly.1939, The Listener, volume 22, page 560. From the entry mankindly
• The result was not revolt, but a familiar wartime dynamic: a rally around the flag, reinforced by coercion and fear of state retribution.2026 April 23, Fawaz Gerges, “Trump’s war has backfired spectacularly: Iran is now more influential than ever”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry rally round the flag
• By invoking a wartime authority in service of a peacetime deportation agenda, he has gone beyond what even this draconian power permits.2025 April 24, Katherine Yon Ebright, Elizabeth Goitein, “Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the United States”, in The Atlantic. From the entry agenda
• In perhaps history's greatest instance of “you break it, you buy it,” the wartime imperial government bought millions of gallons of unused vodka.2010, Mark Lawrence Schrad, The Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions,, page 131. From the entry you break it, you buy it
• As in wartime, the ministry was sparing in its use of legal sanctions, preferring to keep these powers in the background as far as possible.2000, David Price, Office of Hope: A History of the Public Employment Service in Great Britain, page 114. From the entry ringfence
• As on the docks, a wartime Essential Work Order gave the miners a minimum weekly wage and 'ring-fenced' employment in the industry.1999, Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, Chris Waters, Moments of modernity: reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964, page 89. From the entry ringfence
• The immigration department said today that Ivor Hughes, 35-year-old wartime Royal Navy deserter, has been granted permission to live in Canada as a landed immigrant.1953 December 18, “Allow Navy Deserter To Stay as Immigrant”, in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Canada, retrieved 24 Jul 2011, page 4. From the entry landed immigrant
• Everybody drinks a lot in wartime, but it seemed to me that I must have drunk enough to float a couple of battleships.1945, Peter Cheyney, Sinister Errand, London: Collins, published 1952, page 8. From the entry a
• Chungking became the wartime capital of Free China, and Szechwan, that vast, barely accessible province hidden behind steep mountain ranges, became the country’s wartime base.1943, Hubert Freyn, Free China's New Deal, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 6. From the entry Chungking
• One sinister development that aggravated the food situation was the rise in wartime Britain of a new kind of criminal: the food racketeer.1941, Time. From the entry foodlegger
• He is telegraphing a shift away from wartime crisis mode back toward the aura of a calm, paternalistic leader shielding Russians from the dangers of the world.2022 June 30, Anton Troianovski, “Patient and Confident, Putin Shifts Out of Wartime Crisis Mode”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry telegraph
• Not until rehabilitation was wrapped in the cloth of wartime patriotism—a program billed as necessary for the welfare of disabled soldiers—did it receive overwhelming congressional support.2011, Beth Linker, War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry cloth
• In wartime, however, the prohibition against targeted killing is more elusive because the law stipulates that combatants, regardless of their rank or official role, are potential targets.2008, Mark R. Amstutz, International Ethics: Concepts, Theories, and Cases in Global Politics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc…. From the entry targeted killing
• A Californian, she worked for U.S. intelligence in wartime K'un-ming, where the American food she ate was "terrible" and the regional Chinese food was a revelation.2006, Geoffrey Blainey, A Short History of the 20th Century, Ivan R. Dee, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 254. From the entry K'un-ming
• Both figures looked upstage at the model of a white statue which pointed down at them with the accusing finger of an Italian traffic policeman or wartime recruiting poster.1991 September, Stephen Fry, “[Prelude to chapter 1]”, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section, page 2. From the entry accusing
• Prior to that time, Station personnel were first officed in temporary wartime barracks on the campus and then on the second floor of the Journalism Building.1976, General Technical Report RM., page 128. From the entry office
• Such equipment has had to bear the unparalleled stress of wartime operation without the maintenance and renewal it would have received under the far easier conditions of peacetime working.1946 March and April, “Railway Maintenance and Safety”, in Railway Magazine, page 68. From the entry unparalleled
• Sometimes this very subtle contrast becomes only too visible, as when in wartime Jewish business men were almost lynched because they were thoroughly business men and worked for profit.1927, “Making of America Project”, in Harper's Magazine, volume 154, page 502. From the entry business

Meaning of wartime

1. noun A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.

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Questions about wartime in a sentence

How do you use wartime in a sentence?

Wartime is used as a noun. For example: “In wartime everything is done on a day-to-day basis because you can never plan ahead.”

What is a short sentence with wartime?

“Loose Lips Sink Ships, said the wartime poster.”

What does wartime mean?

Wartime means a period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.