Example sentences for: peacetime

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

  • And so Medicare is launching "the biggest peacetime education program the federal government has ever undertaken."

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

  • Thus, the user has to come to the dictionary already aware that peace-offering and peace-pipe are hyphenated, so they are listed under peace , while peacemaker and peacetime are solid, hence are headwords: that is not very helpful if, as is most likely, the user merely wanted to discover whether the word he was seeking is spelled with a hyphen, as two words, or solid.

  • 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.

  • 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.)


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