Example sentences for: tranquillity

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

  • Some of the following expressions, like writ room, must have had their beginnings in states of tranquillity.

  • But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.

  • Although some donkey carts and bicycles occasionally impinge on the tranquillity of the main street, the townsfolk have plenty of time to stand around and gossip.

  • Just south of this temple complex is Tianning Si Ta, the Temple of Heavenly Tranquillity Pagoda, built during the Liao Dynasty (907–1125), making it Beijing’s oldest surviving building.

  • No other region of Japan offers the same combination of urban intensity, rural tranquillity, and dramatic cultural treasures — and all in such close proximity.


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