How to Use peace offering in a Sentence

peace offering

noun

• After our last argument, I sent her flowers as a peace offering.
• Huntt is handed her first joint at age ten, a peace offering from her sister Raquel, who choked her.
  — Jasmin Hernandez, ELLE, 9 July 2022
• Walking away with someone's head should make a nice peace offering for the Germans.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 11 Dec. 2022
• Still, Ghani's peace offer has met with widespread approval.
  — Fox News, 12 Mar. 2018
• When Julie’s boyfriend came home with a brand new iPhone for her at the end of the summer in 2019, Julie saw it as a peace offering—a sign that their relationship was on the mend.
  — Mélissa Godin, Time, 31 Dec. 2020
• Working with ex-poachers was more than a peace offering.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
• The Taliban chief, Haibatullah Akhundzada, has not responded to the peace offer.
  — Asfandyar Mir, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• His words were a peace offering, in hopes of soothing tempers after a turbulent week.
  — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 14 July 2021
• Later that day, Jube offered a peace offering to the frustrated neighbor by hand delivering a rack of ribs to her.
  — Dallas News, 11 May 2022
• Sperling may be interpreted as a peace offering to the Democratic Left, which feels slighted because Biden chose Tanden in the first place.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2021
• Miffed, Callie slinks away, but returns later with a slice of birthday cake, intended as a peace offering.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 Sep. 2021
• Back home in a points-less reality, the kids still navigate the good and the bad of check marks at school, trophies in sports, and, yes, the occasional peace offering of extra video-game time at home.
  — Josh Wilbur, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Reading Trump’s latest moves — the debt deal and the peace offering on a limited amnesty — as the beginning of a strategy obscures these questions.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 8 Sep. 2017
• Valerie was the first to apologize, proffering a pair of dangling silver earrings as a peace offering in the waiting room of our dance studio.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2021
• Some pro-independence figures in Catalonia say the only proper peace offering is full amnesty — which would strike the crimes from the record, something that the pardons will not do.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2021
• The Taliban have yet to show any interest in a comprehensive peace offer made recently by the Afghan government.
  — Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• The company’s offer was not only a peace offering, but a way to rein in the impulsive Musk, who has a penchant for making crude jokes, posting memes, and trolling people on Twitter.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2022
• In a move that will surely get the Nobel Committee murmuring, the attorney ended with a peace offering.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2020
• Demonstrators placed food, water, and red roses in front of police officers in riot gear as a peace offering.
  — Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2021
• Sustenance, during these meetings, can serve as a peace offering.
  — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
• After an exceptional hour, Mozart leaves us with a benediction but without the peace offering.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• That the thanksgiving sacrifice is a type of peace offering is of great import: When acknowledging God, the human being achieves a level of inner peace.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• The increase in violence may once again test the resolve of the country’s government, which recently presented an extensive peace offer to the Taliban.
  — Zabihullah Ghazi and Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
• Analysts say the wrangling over a meeting to talk peace offers a window into the enormity of the task of actually reaching a peace pact in a region of competing influences.
  — Fox News, 25 Aug. 2018
• Veggie burgers used to be a peace offering for vegans at backyard barbecues.
  — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
• With their peace offering snubbed, police officers instead decided to corral the sea lion.
  — oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2021
• To resolve the situation, security forces released Guzmán back to the cartel — a deeply controversial peace offering intended to put an end to the day’s violence.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
• The cease-fire, which Ghani said would go into effect next week, to coincide with one of the holiest periods on the Muslim calendar, comes months after his government presented an extensive peace offer to the Taliban.
  — Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• Besides the avocado situation, Chipotle did not see a profit boost from its decision to give out a bunch of free burritos as a peace offering to wary customers—and those free burritos came with guac.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 13 Jan. 2017
• Later, after curfew was lifted, the filmmaker recorded neighbors giving food as a peace offering to patrolling police.
  — The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024