Sentence examples for 1940 from inspiring English sources

My country was brutally occupied by the Soviets in 1940 and 1944".

My dad came here in 1940 and was separated from his mum and his sister".

Early in 1940 they rented a small house in St Ives and for the next three years Hepworth was unable to carve at all; she had neither the means, nor the time.

The American writer Langston Hughes proclaimed "Life's a bitch" in 1940, but it's not clear who added the suffix – or when.

I also want to recommend Pied Piper by Neville Shute, which was actually written during the war and is about an elderly Englishman who becomes responsible for a growing group of children as he tries to escape from the German invasion of France in 1940.

Backstory American Ballet Theatre arrived like a bolt from the blue in 1940.

Moldova became a Soviet republic in 1940 after Moscow annexed the Black Sea territory of Bessarabia.

The Blue Bird (1940) was Fox's answer to MGM's The Wizard of Oz, but the film was an expensive failure and marked the end of Temple's star power.

Though he could be lascivious in Secret Agent and Strange Cargo (1940) or erotically obsessed in Karl Freund's Mad Love (1935), onscreen sexlessness suited Lorre, who was rarely (if ever) allowed a successful romantic relationship.

In 1940 he wrote to the Anatomy Institute: "I regret to say that through lack of cases I was unable to pack most of the specimens or to arrange for shipment… [I] packed 13 cases of skeletons and long bones leaving unpacked enough skeletons and long bones for about 12 cases… I dumped all the incomplete skeletons except long bones into the creek… as you appear to only require complete skeletons".

In 1940, he was invalided out of the forces after a nervous breakdown.