How to Use peaceful in a Sentence

peaceful

adjective
  • The park is so peaceful and quiet.
  • They settled the conflict by peaceful means.
  • We need to find a peaceful alternative to war.
  • And that feels peaceful for us.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This is a very peaceful form of protest.
    — Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This is a very peaceful form of protest.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • These are not peaceful protests.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • These are not peaceful protests.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Around us, things seemed peaceful.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Wishing all of you a peaceful start to this new year.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • My sleep has been even more peaceful with this storage bed.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Alas, there are no couch potatoes in peaceful protest.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Holmes knew that a four-second fall is not a peaceful way to die.
    — John Branch Jim Wilson, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Sonko called for the protests to be even larger, though peaceful.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The first two events were largely peaceful.
    — Mary Ramsey march 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2026
  • For the first time in their lives, things felt secure and peaceful.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But all are quiet and peaceful.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Protest groups have called for peaceful action.
    — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But things aren’t so peaceful elsewhere.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Protest leaders counter-claimed that the march was peaceful, and no threats were made.
    — Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Winter is a quiet and peaceful time to be on the trails, too.
    — Chris Van Leuven, Outside Online, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Others talk about a kind of quiet that does not feel peaceful.
    — Ana Jarzin, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Walz is asking anyone who protests to do so in a peaceful way.
    — CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Add a near silent engine and our time on the trail was almost peaceful.
    — David Ferry, Outside Online, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The myth is that this is a peaceful death and not a cruel death, and that's just not true.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Great day for peaceful protesting.
    — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Not high up in the clouds, but down into my body, a much more peaceful place than my brain.
    — Blake Crisses, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2026
  • Mills urged anyone who wanted to protest to stay peaceful.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The chants and the hymns are ordered and peaceful, a recipe for beauty.
    — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • This was not a peaceful visit or lawful protest.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026

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