How to Use peaceable in a Sentence

peaceable

adjective

• The crowd dispersed in a peaceable manner.
• He has a peaceable nature.
• There was something peaceable about all of it, the dead breaking bread with the living.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• Block vasopressin and the male voles shifted back to their more peaceable selves.
  — National Geographic, 4 Oct. 2017
• In a preface, Cavendish invokes fiction as the plainest and most peaceable genre for the expression of wit.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• What is more peaceable a form of assembly than the act of walking down a Fifth Avenue sidewalk?
  — Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 18 July 2022
• What resulted was not the peaceable kingdom, but at least the French gave up the practice of religious massacre for a time.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Levy Armstrong points out that the group has been peaceable, which Orput acknowledges.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• At first, the two keep to themselves in a largely peaceable coexistence.
  — The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• And that is why the US Constitution protects the right of peaceable assembly.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
• Other pictures are tender: whole dead rabbits and fish as peaceable as children who have been sung to sleep.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
• In any case, some way will have to be found to deal with the gangs and to reintegrate their members back into a peaceable society that includes jobs.
  — Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
• So having this sort of moment, this peaceable moment between Roman and Shiv isn’t quite right.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• And despite their hopeful tenor, these shows’ creation was not always peaceable.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• But Farra insisted that, despite the deaths caused by Israel’s air strikes, there were many other Gazans who still shared his peaceable views.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• The animals are listening to a story intended to convey the idea of a peaceable kingdom.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 9 Sep. 2019
• Right next to him could be Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus and co-aggressor against its peaceable neighbor.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• But it’s not the American way to lock up a large number of peaceable folks to incapacitate a small number of dangerous ones.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• The counter-argument, from some in both the Bush and the Clinton Administrations, was that the priority was the emergence of a peaceable and democratic Russia.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• An 80-year long war of independence, various wars against the Brits, and an imperial past aside, the Dutch are a reasonably peaceable bunch, but that doesn’t mean that they cannot get riled up.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 15 July 2022
• There’s murder most foul in a previously peaceable Irish village in this new mystery drama.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• If this vision of a peaceable kingdom is unusual, nature imagery abounds.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
• His self-presentation was that of well-meaning and peaceable man with a heart for the poor and a natural identification with working men and women.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
• After the break, Durst and Borland discuss the platinum-selling nu metal act’s fractious past, peaceable present, and the phallic implications of their new CD’s title.
  — Jolie Lash, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• How to create a more peaceable kingdom Rule No. 1 of safe child-pet interactions is supervision.
  — Alla Katsnelson, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• But when the pair got engaged in 2015, a dissonance stormed their otherwise peaceable relationship.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2018
• The making of the Jewish state represents perhaps history’s most peaceable in-migration and state creation.
  — WSJ, 19 June 2022
• Shooting this city’s law enforcement officers, looting its businesses, and committing arson at the front door of its state courthouse is far from peaceable.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 24 Sep. 2020
• These chases mostly end meekly, sans gore or gunfire, with a peaceable arrest following a certain time-plus-mayhem factor.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• Duggan on Sunday imposed a nightly 8 p.m. curfew, calling for peaceable marchers to disperse roughly one hour before sunset.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2020

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024