6 sentences with 'eve'
Example sentences and phrases with the word eve and other words derived from it.
• « On the last night, the eve of my return home, I sit on the hotel balcony and watch as a tracer shell dims the stars. »
• « By the eve of World War II, the USSR had become the world's third largest industrial power, after the United States and Germany, and was among the leading political powers not only in Europe but in the world. »
• « Thus, at a terrible human cost, Stalin's policies transformed the USSR into a semblance of a modern state on the eve of World War II - "just in time", as it turned out. »
• « On the eve of Christmas 1894, Louis spent a sleepless night designing a device that would make the film run smoothly. »
• « By the eve of the Civil War, the United States had moved from roads and canals to a well-established and extensive system of railways. »
• « By the eve of the Civil War, Ellison had become one of the richest and largest slave owners in the state. »