How to Use peaceful in a Sentence

peaceful

adjective
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  • The park is so peaceful and quiet.
  • They settled the conflict by peaceful means.
  • We need to find a peaceful alternative to war.
  • The chants and the hymns are ordered and peaceful, a recipe for beauty.
    — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The myth is that this is a peaceful death and not a cruel death, and that's just not true.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Holmes knew that a four-second fall is not a peaceful way to die.
    — John Branch Jim Wilson, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Will Dobbins hold out, or will the two sides come to a peaceful accord?
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2023
  • The meeting aimed to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
  • And, yes, this was an attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
    — ABC News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • This feels good, this feels peaceful, this feels joyful.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Wish wishes for a peaceful and safe week and good tidings for all of the people of Israel.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2023
  • That was a date when peaceful transfer of power was to occur.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Phil Mansfield Both the bed and the bathtub in the primary bedroom are positioned to take in the peaceful views.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The people who were protesting were more peaceful, as compared to the uprising of 1992.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Until now, their small, suburban town, seven miles north of the bustling city of Dnipro, had been peaceful.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • One is secure elections, and the second is a peaceful transfer of power.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The British had attempted to take some Māori men on board their ship to demonstrate that their intentions were peaceful.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Before her sister’s death, Navarro enjoys a peaceful meal with Rose (in a scene where Fiona Shaw sports a killer red dress).
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The current message is that ‘everything is OK; these are peaceful times.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The lodge provides privacy and a peaceful setting surrounded by nature and views of the ocean.
    — Jessica Kelly, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Gujarat was also the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, who led the Salt March, one of his most famous acts of peaceful protest, through the state in 1930.
    — Margot Bigg, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The peaceful crowd waved union flags, banged drums, and chanted to demand the withdrawal of the pension law and a lower retirement age.
    — Oleg Cetinic, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2023
  • Christina Hall enjoyed a peaceful Mother's Day with her three kids.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
  • Jake is hopeful that his brother’s legacy will encourage people to want to make the world a more peaceful place.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Whatever happened to the peaceful days of LipSmackers and Claire's?
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Jan. 2024
  • With just forty guest rooms and a landscape designed to induce calm, this place exudes peaceful lakeside bliss.
    — Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Pro-Palestinian protests, both violent and peaceful, have spread across the West in recent months.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Its calm southern shores are ideal for a peaceful babymoon but those looking for more action don't have to look far.
    — Judy Koutsky, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2023
  • So a lot of the furniture is very, very natural, peaceful, simple.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023

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