PEACEFUL in a Sentence

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1. Tonight, the peace agreement lies in tatters.
2. The odor of the peaceful pines was in the men's nostrils.
3. The warm still kitchen looked as peaceful as the night before.
4. The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan.
5. Every day they are talking about peace but actually preparing for war.

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peaceful
 a.  not disturbed by turmoil or war
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The warm still kitchen looked as peaceful as the night before.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  In this interval between the morning party and the evening's ball, they seemed a placid, peaceful lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Melanie's voice, measured and peaceful, a little reproving, rose above the others.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  The longer she sat silent in the peaceful room, trying to sew, listening to Melanie's voice, the tighter her nerves stretched.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  His impulse was to return to her side, to fall on his knees, and rest his throbbing head against the peaceful cheek on the pillow.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
7  And thus, though surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights, did these inscrutable creatures at the centre freely and fearlessly indulge in all peaceful concernments; yea, serenely revelled in dalliance and delight.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
8  How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
9  They were peaceful, law-abiding citizens and energetic business men.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
10  His house stood rather far back from the street, in the center of a delightful garden, so that it was quiet and peaceful at the old gentleman's study window.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
11  It was a convenient, and, I trust, will prove a peaceful grave for a soldier.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
12  A few rods in their front lay another of the wooded islets, but it appeared as calm and peaceful as if its solitude had never been disturbed by the foot of man.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
13  Each bore his rifle, and all the other accouterments of war, though the paint was uniformly peaceful.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
14  The eye could range, in every direction, through the long and shadowed vistas of the trees; but nowhere was any object to be seen that did not properly belong to the peaceful and slumbering scenery.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
15  The odor of the peaceful pines was in the men's nostrils.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
16  As Bush's view , North Korea is the main deterrent from a peaceful resolution.
17  At Camp David, President Carter labored to bring an end to the enmity that prevented the peaceful coexistence of Egypt and Israel.
18  If we want to live a peaceful and democratic life, we cannot help object to war.
19  Aumann showed that peaceful cooperation can emerge in a repeated game, even when the players have strong short-term conflicting interests.
20  The bridge is where hundreds of peaceful protesters were brutally beaten on "Bloody Sunday" as they sought to end discriminatory tactics — such as poll taxes and arbitrary literacy tests — used by white officials to prevent African Americans from voting.
21  He further rationalized his activity by convincing himself that he was actually promoting peace.
22  Every day they are talking about peace but actually preparing for war.
23  The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan.
24  The gallant soldiers lost their lives so that peace might reign again.
25  Tonight, the peace agreement lies in tatters.
26  A peace agreement will be signed by the leaders of the country's warring factions.
27  The attack on civilians is a flagrant violation of the peace agreement.
28  The negotiators were meeting in secret for several months before the peace agreement was made public.
29  Representatives of many nations at the peace talks are working towards agreement.
30  This weekend's talks between the two leaders have set the scene for a peace agreement to be reached.