Example sentences for: tranquillity

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

  • The Great Buddha’s right hand is bestowing spiritual tranquillity, while the left symbolizes the granting of wishes.

  • If Hinduism is more or less India’s national belief system, this may be because it offers something for everyone: mysticism and metaphysics for scholars, ceremony for ordinary people, austerity, sensuality, tranquillity, and frenzy.

  • Despite the concrete sprawl of Japan’s postwar urban development, you can still find tranquillity in a brilliant-green, moss-covered temple garden or in the alcove of a traditional restaurant with its tatami-mat flooring, shielded from the other guests by shoji (paper screens) — remnants of a not-so-distant past.

  • 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.

  • Not to be missed, either, are the extensive and beautiful gardens, an oasis of tranquillity in this perpetually busy city.


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