Example sentences for: peaceful

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

  • A notable exception was the black novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960), who had grown up in the "Pure Negro Town" of Eatonville, Fla., which boasted a charter, marshal, mayor, council, plenty to eat--and streets so peaceful that there was no jail.

  • In those peaceful years, without threat of foreign invasion or civil war, there were no city ramparts.

  • Republicans in wealthy towns like Winnetka, Ill., are pleased that America is prosperous and peaceful, and appalled by the vitriolic, negative activism of conservatives.

  • In its piece on the speech, USA Today mentions that the Secretary-General of the U.N., Kofi Annan, is going to Baghdad to try for a peaceful resolution.

  • He formed the peaceful but powerful Catholic Association, and in 1829 the Duke of Wellington, in a bid to avoid a civil war, passed the Catholic Emancipation Bill, which allowed Irish Catholics to sit in the parliament at Westminster for the first time.


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