How to Use placid in a Sentence

placid

adjective
  • But though the tempo of her music was fast, the vibe was placid.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2023
  • On this summer day, the world looked placid over on Calumet too.
    Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • It’s just kind of strange to see such a weirdly placid look on her face.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The mood is placid, and the ground is covered in AstroTurf.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 15 July 2021
  • The river is rather placid in this area, and there are plenty of spots to fish along the banks.
    Peter Marteka, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Well, perhaps placid isn’t the word to describe Justin.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • Fishing boats churned across the placid waters of the harbor.
    Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • On the far shore, across five miles of placid water, lights in the city of Tiberias were blinking off.
    Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The style is full of close-ups, on the woman’s boots, on the rocks, and on Woodvine’s always placid face.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Tran goes to join the few women still bobbing in the dark, placid water.
    Jessica Wapner, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The British band Dry Cleaning is at once chaotic and placid.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 June 2021
  • All the while, the placid expression on his face never changed.
    Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • But insipid décor isn’t the only route to a placid space.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • The clouds aren’t placid but constantly on the move, whipping around the planet in two to four days.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The water was placid, the clouds dark but between the darkest escaped rays of light.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
  • But the placid tone of Proctor’s life is shattered early in the novel.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
  • There was rain and there was sun, windy spurts and placid spells, lucky birdies and unlucky bogeys.
    Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 18 July 2019
  • Today, the three-block green space, shaded by rare elm trees, is more placid.
    C. J. Hughes, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Tiny spots of bright, white light speckling a jet black field suggest a placid night sky.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Once placid meetings now erupt in chaos with heckling, protests and even death threats.
    Janelle Davis, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Though Higdon’s placid on the surface, nothing feels easy to her.
    David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Or was the rage hiding in plain sight, coursing beneath the surface of even this placid scene?
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • My marginalia became a series of handholds on the placid smoothness of the page.
    New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Indra's Net, the Hindu weave, is a more static, more placid grid.
    Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
  • And Uys’s portrait of the San as living in placid isolation?
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Koume, a usually placid pup, raised the alarm with her barks which then allowed people to rush to the man’s aid.
    Junko Ogura, CNN, 9 May 2023
  • A couple inflatable pool toys could be fun to float on in the placid water.
    idahostatesman, 24 May 2016
  • The PGA Tour’s latest proposal could stem the tide of rebels leaving its once placid nest.
    Bill Pennington, New York Times, 21 June 2022
  • But as his boat pulls away from the landing, his normally placid face turns cloudy.
    Georgina Gustin, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Mangrove Bay Yes, there are actual mangroves along the snaking shore of this placid bay on the West End.
    Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2023

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