PLACID in a Sentence
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67 example sentences for PLACID, such as:
1. A placid parent makes a placid home.
2. But his mild face was far from placid.
3. She became placid, and thought well of her philosophy.
4. Carreen liked him because of his placid and unembarrassed silences.
5. After his vacation in this placid section, he felt soothed and rested.
2. But his mild face was far from placid.
3. She became placid, and thought well of her philosophy.
4. Carreen liked him because of his placid and unembarrassed silences.
5. After his vacation in this placid section, he felt soothed and rested.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PLACID
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placid
a. not easily irritated
a. (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1 The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid, complacent.
2 Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and tried to rearrange her face in more placid lines.
3 Her mind was as if a cyclone had gone through it, and it seemed strange that the dining room where they sat should be so placid, so unchanged from what it had always been.
4 In this interval between the morning party and the evening's ball, they seemed a placid, peaceful lot.
5 She thought of Melanie and saw suddenly her quiet brown eyes with their far-off look, her placid little hands in their black lace mitts, her gentle silences.
6 Until the thunders of the siege began, he had never known anything but a happy, placid, quiet life.
7 The paddock, once full of frolicking colts and placid brood mares, was empty now except for one mule, the mule Mr. Tarleton had ridden home from the surrender.
8 Carreen liked him because of his placid and unembarrassed silences.
9 They were silent for a while and Will chewed his tobacco like a placid ruminant animal.
10 But his mild face was far from placid.
11 She would not be driven by fears, day and night, and life would be a placid, unhurried affair.
12 The river road led past rocky field slopes, deep glens, woods flamboyant now with September, to Mendota, white walls and a spire among trees beneath a hill, old-world in its placid ease.
13 She became placid, and thought well of her philosophy.
14 Across the track was a pasture of dwarf clover and sparse lawn cut by earthy cow-paths; beyond its placid narrow green, the rough immensity of new stubble, jagged with wheat-stacks like huge pineapples.
15 The well-known crack of a rifle, whose ball came skipping along the placid surface of the strait, and a shrill yell from the island, interrupted his speech, and announced that their passage was discovered.
Example Sentence:
1 After his vacation in this placid section, he felt soothed and rested.
2 A placid parent makes a placid home.
3 Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
4 And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear!