Example sentences for: pacifist

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

  • Given his leftist leanings, it was inevitable that Wilkins would become involved in the pacifist movement in Cambridge, with its close connection to the Communist Party.

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

  • 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.

  • The Disneyfied Tarzan is such a wimp that he is not allowed to kill anything or anybody, although our Paleolithic pacifist is permitted to use martial arts techniques in self-defense.

  • 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.


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