"wartime" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She intercuts the memories of her wartime childhood with the scenes of her return to Vietnam in 1986 and a family reunion after a 16-year absence.
- Carrickfergus also describes a wartime childhood, with rationing and "maps above the fireplace", and a "huge camp of soldiers" in sight of Carrickfergus Rectory.
- An image of a sleeping boy with a small Fascist plane flying over him also refers to the artist's wartime childhood, spent near Dresden.
- The discussion is repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks from the boy's wartime childhood.
- Suffering from a wartime childhood and post-war shortages in London, Timothy has little to enrich his early youth.
- She was an energetic, middle-aged Ukrainian who had spent a wartime childhood in an orphanage and who still had shrapnel in her from a German bomb.
- She is charming, lovable and almost totally without an interior life, retaining from her own wartime childhood only "the last lingering shadow of doubt, a doubt that was always experienced as dissatisfaction."
- A wartime childhood may provide rich inspiration for a writer's work, allowing him to weld a child's naturally artistic perception of the world to the drama of extraordinary events.
- Growing up in Poland from the age of 4, he survived a terrifying wartime childhood.
- "Chronicle in Stone" evokes a wartime childhood in exquisite, fantastic metaphor.
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