How to Use pacific in a Sentence
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The temblor occurred at 7:45 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0 miles.
—Quakebot, latimes.com, 8 June 2017
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The fight starts around 2 p.m. Pacific time, but catch back beforehand for behind the scenes updates live from ringside.
—Lance Pugmire, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2017
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The swap: Rose hips Goji berries are valued for their high vitamin C content: Skip the long trek across the pacific, and harvest some rose hips this fall.
—Christine Buckley, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
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The group will be performing live Sunday during the pre-telecast online at grammy.com, which will start around noon Pacific time.
—Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
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For more than 50 years, Bonn and later Berlin had taken a pacific approach: Don’t rile the Russians; enmesh them in trade and diplomacy.
—Josef Joffe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
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Louis served in the military police in the pacific, and served as Eleanor Roosevelt's honor-guard on her visit to hospitals in Australia.
—Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2017
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Evans said that an intense influx of pacific air from the west coast could be what is causing warmer temperatures across the country and in Milwaukee.
—Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2023
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Instead, Saturday Night Live will now start at 8:30 p.m. Pacific time.
—Joanna Robinson, HWD, 16 Mar. 2017
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Other species, such as pacific herring and pigeon guillemots, also haven’t come close to returning to their pre-spill levels.
—National Geographic, 26 Jan. 2016
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Male sperm whales literally cover the entire pacific ocean looking for a mate, using sound to navigate and likely, sending out signals that help show off their size.
—National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2016
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Male sperm whales literally cover the entire pacific ocean looking for a mate, using sound to navigate and likely, sending out signals that help show off their size.
—Tim Laman, National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2016
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In short, the play begins in a tempestuous way and concludes in a manner that is more pacific or, in this particular geographic case, Mediterranean.
—Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 23 June 2017
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None of Pollini's pacific offerings had, however, light, veiled or relaxed tone.
—Alan G. Artner, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
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What looks like a cut-and-dried case leads her to ally with Román, born and raised in a seemingly pacific local community which hides a terrifying past of dark crimes and committed in 1999 by a sect which awaited an Apocalypse.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
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Maritime-data providers say the vast majority of trade on Asia-Europe and trans-Pacific trade lanes will be handled by three alliances counting 11 shipping operators.
—Paul Page, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2017
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Both couples felt that their small-ship sailing with South Pacific specialists Paul Gaugin—often cited as one of the world's best cruise lines for romance—far exceeded expectations.
—Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2017
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Previously, pacific coast and mountain-time viewers would view primetime coverage on a tape delay.
—Tamara Fuentes, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2018
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California Today goes live at 6 a.m. Pacific time weekdays.
—Mike McPhate, New York Times, 6 June 2017
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Most Rohingyas have remained remarkably pacific in the face of extraordinary provocation.
—The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
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This pacific picture, though, is soon replaced by far more disturbing, recurrent images of perilously small boats filled with frantically shouting, gesturing men, women and children seeking asylum.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
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Australian pedophiles are notorious for taking inexpensive vacations to nearby Southeast Asian and Pacific island countries to abuse children there.
—Associated Press, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
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Anti-Semitism had little or no place in Italian fascist doctrine before 1938, reflecting the Italian Jewish community’s relatively pacific existence on the peninsula.
—Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 20 Jan. 2017
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