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.

  • Lee is a pacifist and an intellectually serious one.

  • Research gradually gave way to the pursuit of pacifist goals in a number of organizations and to the popularization of science.

  • 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.


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