Example sentences for: peaceful

How can you use “peaceful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One might think that watching other people fishing is like watching the grass grow; it cannot compare for action with The Terminator , yet it is far from boring—especially if one is watching an edited version and does not have to sit on shore or in a boat for hours on end— and that particular program, punctuated here and there by fishing lore, was dreamily engaging and peaceful, well calculated to remove one's mind from the cares of the day.

  • They swore it would not happen again, and they created an international architecture which included the UN, IMF, World Bank, and the GATT, now the WTO, to achieve that peaceful purpose."

  • It’s been a home-away-from-home for the extreme right Action Française group under Charles Maurras in 1899; the poet and surrealist precursor Apollinaire in 1914 (who, with his friends, liked to provoke brawls); and, during the 1950s, Sartre’s existentialists, a peaceful bunch who never got enough sleep to have the energy to fight.

  • Commenting Wednesday on Turkey's capture of the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, the press across western Europe made two principal demands: that Ocalan should not be executed, as Turkish law allows, and that Turkey should seize this opportunity to reach a peaceful settlement of its Kurdish problem.

  • Bin Ladin's Historical Opportunity Most Muslims prefer a peaceful and inclusive vision of their faith, not the violent sectarianism of Bin Ladin.


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