How to Use peace offering in a Sentence

peace offering

noun
  • After our last argument, I sent her flowers as a peace offering.
  • So slipping on this luxe sleep mask at night is my peace offering to both.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 13 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • His words were a peace offering, in hopes of soothing tempers after a turbulent week.
    — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 14 July 2021
  • Sustenance, during these meetings, can serve as a peace offering.
    — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
  • On the beach, Nia gets coconuts for Janet and Michelle, which feels like a real peace offering.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 July 2026
  • The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
    — Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Conservatives derided the bill which appeared to be a peace offering as an attempt from the speaker to save face.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Miffed, Callie slinks away, but returns later with a slice of birthday cake, intended as a peace offering.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Veggie burgers used to be a peace offering for vegans at backyard barbecues.
    — Washington Post, 16 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
  • After an exceptional hour, Mozart leaves us with a benediction but without the peace offering.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • With their peace offering snubbed, police officers instead decided to corral the sea lion.
    — oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Elodie is really just a ritual sacrifice, a token peace offering to the local dragon.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The Taliban chief, Haibatullah Akhundzada, has not responded to the peace offer.
    — Asfandyar Mir, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Attending the grand opening, the insurance agent brought Moore flowers and a card as a peace offering, which Moore made a show of rejecting.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Later, after curfew was lifted, the filmmaker recorded neighbors giving food as a peace offering to patrolling police.
    — The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Rookie cast member Eady, who had started a feud with Moore earlier in the season, arrived with a peace offering, a bouquet of flowers with a card.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Henry is unsure if there is anything to be done to mend the fracture with the families, and practically rolls his eyes when Ned suggests Ellen’s hand as a peace offering.
    — Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • To smooth over tensions, the New York Times says Zuckerberg gifted his next-door neighbors noise-canceling headphones as a peace offering.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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