PEACEFUL in a Sentence

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393 example sentences for PEACEFUL, such as:
1. He could not imagine a more peaceful scene.
2. The aims of the organization are wholly peaceful.
3. We had a peaceful afternoon without the children.
4. The odor of the peaceful pines was in the men's nostrils.
5. Everyone is free to engage in peaceful political activity.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PEACEFUL
peaceful
 a.  not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war
 a.  peacefully resistant in response to injustice
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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)
1  Everyone is free to engage in peaceful political activity.
2  We had a peaceful afternoon without the children.
3  He has attempted to find a peaceful solution to the Ossetian conflict.
4  A small group of demonstrators staged a peaceful protest outside the UN Headquarters.
5  He could not imagine a more peaceful scene.
6  On the whole the celebrations were remarkably good-humoured and peaceful.
7  The aims of the organization are wholly peaceful.
8  The prospects for the country are fairly evenly balanced between peaceful reform and revolution.
9  I have also forgotten once world, whether a peaceful piece of string sound.
10  The relationship between Scotland and its southern neighbour has not always been peaceful.
11  The attack would terminate the relatively peaceful period after cold war.
12  After a tense standoff with riot police, the authorities made the fateful decision to break up the peaceful protest with force.
13  Although some exiles struggled in menial jobs in the West, they at least enjoyed the benefits of a peaceful society.
14  It is not our aim to subjugate our foe; we are interested only in establishing peaceful relations.
15  The northern city of Kano, which has a history of sectarian violence is especially tense, but has remained peaceful.