First World War
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The region once belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire but was ceded to Italy as part of a First World War settlement.
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026
Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to jail in 1918 for speaking out against the First World War.
From Salon • Oct. 14, 2025
We met in groups of two or three at Oxford, with a professor who started with a question—“Was the First World War inevitable?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
During the First World War she moved to London to help the Worker's Suffrage Foundation campaign for women to get the vote and she never lived in Glasgow again, eventually settling in Bristol.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025
Between 1870 and the outbreak of the First World War, 50,000 people died in American mines.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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