Example sentences for: placid

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

  • An early cluster of smallish water lily paintings, two on circular canvases, that Monet exhibited in Paris in 1909 are almost saccharine in their placid beauty, visual equivalents of some of Debussy's prettier preludes.

  • Law , Ally McBeal , The Practice ), has had such a bad run in film (see Lake Placid ) and why Russell Crowe and Burt Reynolds agreed to star in it.

  • was used to immunoprecipitate the tagged δ-OR from the cell lysates, and a murine anti-EGFR antibody ((5 μg/μl) clone LA22; Upstate Biotechnology, Lake Placid, NY) was used to immunoprecipitate out the EGFR.

  • A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed "exhibition guide" that replaces the usual wall panels.

  • As you reach the top of the show, you come across a parade of twenty or so placid Buddhas meditating under Wright's sky-lit dome.


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