Example sentences for: pacifist

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

  • As old as Buddhism, Jainism has made its mark with its concept of ahimsa (non-violence) and is much more pacifist than its name, which means religion of the conquerors.

  • As a Quaker, she also held strong pacifist convictions, and she was the only foreigner invited to the wedding of the crown prince to Michiko Shoda in April 1959.

  • The artist Andreas Schlüter provided the military sculpture, but was able to assert his pacifist views with poignant sculpted masks of dying warriors (1696) in the inner courtyard named after him, the Schlüterhof.

  • Enthusiastic war-supporters like D’Annunzio, who captured the popular imagination by flying over Vienna to drop propaganda leaflets, were acclaimed as patriots, while democrats and pacifist republicans were dismissed as defeatists.

  • To counter a perceived communist threat from the Soviet Union, the US quickly set to work reconstructing the economy by transforming Japan’s institutions and devising a new pacifist constitution.


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