How to Use Great Depression in a Sentence

Great Depression

noun
  • Some economists believe tariffs had made the Great Depression worse.
    — Reco McCambry, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The slugburger is a Great Depression Era food that was invented to make meat rations go further.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 June 2026
  • The Great Depression in the 1930s provided impetus for even greater parks expansion.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The Great Depression likely had a negative impact on Turn Verein membership.
    — Graham Womack may 2, Sacbee.com, 2 May 2026
  • Similarly, the 1929 stock market crash couldn’t have caused the Great Depression as only about 2% of American households owned stock at the time.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 27 June 2026
  • During the most devastating financial crisis our country has ever faced — The Great Depression — Chicago held a huge, extravagant event.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Ida, meanwhile, is a crime society floozy in 1930s Great Depression Chicago, an escort to a coterie of goombahs who take to mentally torturing her over dinner and drinks in a speakeasy.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Franklin Roosevelt was president when Dalworthington Gardens was established as a post-Great Depression federal homestead colony.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Known as the Smoot-Hawley tariffs (for their congressional sponsors), these levies have been widely condemned by economists and historians for limiting world commerce and making the Great Depression worse.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, the company status didn't change much, focusing on powering the defense industry and post-war development.
    — Dean Narciso, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The Great Depression in the 1930s reinforced skepticism of international markets, which many farmers and policymakers saw as the principal cause of the economic downturn.
    — Peter Simons, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The Great Depression in the 1930s reinforced skepticism of international markets, which many farmers and policymakers saw as the principal cause of the economic downturn.
    — Peter Simons, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The narrative follows his life through major events such as World War I and the Great Depression and into the mid-20th century, unfolding in the insular world of academia, where Stoner faces personal and professional struggles with quiet resilience.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
  • His tenure is not only noted for helping the school navigate the Great Depression and two world wars but for doubling its enrollment from 447 to 929 and helping expand the campus by with buildings like Pfeiffer Hall and Merner Field House.
    — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026

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