Example sentences for: tranquillity

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

  • 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.

  • Enlightenment (satori) was to be achieved through self-understanding and self-discipline, combining tranquillity and individualism.

  • 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.

  • Regular military flights may mar the tranquillity somewhat, but they can’t spoil the natural beauty.


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