Example sentences for: peacetime

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

  • Pugnacious new CNN boss Rick Kaplan was hired from ABC to boost the network's sagging peacetime ratings.

  • 7 trillion federal budget--expected to pass today--as the first in three decades with a surplus and as containing the biggest peacetime increase in military spending since Ronald Reagan was president (complete, the NYT notices, with an aircraft carrier contract for Trent Lott's hometown, and a cargo plane contract for Newt Gingrich's.)

  • Twelve years of Reagan-Bush plus eight of Clinton took care of that, along with the longest peacetime economic expansion in American history.

  • Gingrich says the GOP should stick to five campaign themes in the 2000 election: 1) the rescue of Social Security through Personal Savings Accounts (a type of privatization); 2) the establishment of a "global missile defense"; 3) the limitation of taxes in peacetime to 25 percent of income; 4) the abolition of the inheritance tax; and 5) the securing of patients' rights through health-care reform.

  • The Cuban government announced the start of a peacetime “Special Period” in 1990, introducing new austerity measures.


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