How to Use peacetime in a Sentence

peacetime

noun
  • The size of the army was reduced during peacetime.
  • This is the first time the Olympic Games have been postponed in peacetime.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Again, doing so in peacetime, not just in a time of crisis.
    Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 19 July 2024
  • The peacetime loss of the $1.2 billion warship is among the largest in the service’s history.
    Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The ship represents one of the largest peacetime losses ever by the Navy.
    Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2021
  • The mass adaptation to cars came with the shift back to peacetime civilian production in the 1950s.
    Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In peacetime, army jobs turned out to be more like civil service gigs.
    Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 14 July 2022
  • Yemen also is one of the most water-scarce nations on the planet even in peacetime.
    Washington Post, 14 June 2018
  • Instead China wants the upper hand in peacetime, or in crises that fall in the grey zone between peace and war.
    The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Byrne joined the military in peacetime to pay for college.
    oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Some take several days to cross the border into Poland, trips that in peacetime could be made in a day.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Apr. 2022
  • But their hope is to get Mr. Putin to begin discussing targets that should be off the table in peacetime.
    New York Times, 15 June 2021
  • In peacetime, pedestrians would look up to see Konashevych on horseback, saber raised to the sky.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • For the past 65 years, the Queen has reigned through wars and peacetime, and through prosperity and hardship in the United Kingdom.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 15 June 2020
  • The stampede appeared to be one of the worst peacetime tragedies in Israel’s history.
    Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The health care system wasn’t built to withstand these kinds of shocks — a problem in need of tackling once peacetime returns.
    Til Schuermann and Helen Leis, STAT, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The world continues to climb back from the worst recession in peacetime since the Great Depression.
    Kristalina Georgieva For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 7 Mar. 2021
  • So this notion of peacetime/wartime doesn't fully resonate with me.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But peacetime swaps of civilians, like the one involving Griner, are far less predictable.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
  • This was also the case in the US, and many veterans, who had depended on the product while deployed, came to loathe it in peacetime.
    James Griffiths, CNN, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Not least, for three decades, in peacetime as well as in war, a military draft taught young men about putting country before self.
    Leslie Lenkowsky, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Because this fleet is only called on in wartime, there is a tendency to neglect it in peacetime.
    Loren Thompson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In 2000, one of the worst peacetime submarine accidents ever took place off the coast of Russia.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2022
  • For one thing, the mortality rate in colonial New York, where the British kept most of their prisoners, was high even in peacetime.
    New York Times, 7 June 2019
  • That having been said, the UGV was not a vital part of the fighting and the whole point of sending the systems to a combat zone was to expose flaws that might not show up in peacetime.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2018
  • But the four missile attacks were the first known peacetime shootdowns of unauthorized objects in US airspace.
    Stephen Groves, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
  • In Helsinki, large shelters double in peacetime as ice rinks and sports arenas.
    Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • There is the concept of auctoritas, the respect that is earned by those who lead and govern wisely and bravely, whether in war or peacetime.
    Joseph Loconte, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The largest contingents served in Vietnam or in peacetime, according to the U.S. Census.
    Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The idea of evacuation would be arduous for many here in peacetime.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024

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