Example sentences for: pacifism

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

  • The 130-km (78-mile) drive northeast of Calgary on Highway 9 takes you through wheat-growing country where you may see the farming communities of Hutterites, an austere religious sect originally from Slovakia, often persecuted for their pacifism.

  • Former paradoxes of animal behavior such as cooperation, sexuality, aggression, pacifism, and communication were being increasingly understood in terms of the natural selection of genes.

  • (One note: If I left the impression yesterday that Eleanor's pacifism extended to support for unilateral disarmament , I should be clear that--particularly as war approached--it decidedly did not.)

  • But Einstein wins the triathlon because in addition to acing the science test, he prodded Roosevelt to build the bomb (10 points for defeating totalitarianism), fled Germany and immigrated to the United States (five more points for defeating totalitarianism and five for liberation and justice), and preached pacifism and praised Gandhi (10 more points for liberation and justice).

  • The Times reports that basically, within India the tests met with neither political dissent nor Gandhian pacifism.


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