How to Use peacekeeping in a Sentence

peacekeeping

noun
  • They were said to be part of the peacekeeping movement.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Some of them have held out hope that Arab states would agree to send in a peacekeeping force.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Cue up Arab peacekeeping force.
    — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The size and duties of the peacekeeping force have not been specified.
    — Jim Heintz, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Thirteen South African peacekeeping troops have been killed over the past week.
    — Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Trying can take many forms, one of which is to keep your distance as part of a peacekeeping strategy.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
  • One idea floated by Poland is the creation of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The venue had hosted a base for the African Union peacekeeping force until late last year.
    — Washington Post, 30 June 2020
  • The peacekeeping force said no one was injured in the incidents, but buildings were damaged.
    — Khaled Wassef, CBS News, 13 May 2026
  • The increase in peacekeeping placed greater financial strain on the UN.
    — Gary Wilson, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Agape, a peacekeeping force whose staff includes ex-gang members from the neighborhood, is on contract with the city to keep watch over the area.
    — Star Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
  • One idea toward that reset floated by Poland is the creation of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
    — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Moreover, there has not been a new peacekeeping mission to Africa since 2014.
    — Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
  • Russia sought to take the lead in peacekeeping efforts due to the proximity of the conflict to its borders.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The West will want to reduce Russia’s role and make its peacekeeping force leave after an agreement is signed.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2023
  • One of the major sticking points to a ceasefire is how it would be enforced and whether European troops would have a role in peacekeeping.
    — Colin Meyn, The Hill, 18 Mar. 2025
  • However, its objective has since expanded to make the board a global peacekeeping body.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The Marines were there as part of a peacekeeping mission during the Lebanese Civil War.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 7 Mar. 2026
  • African Union peacekeeping forces, which helped to deter Al Shabab for years, are due to pull out by December.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The Pledge hosts workshops for students, with speakers who talk about conflict resolution and peacekeeping.
    — Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
  • There has also been growing support in Europe for providing peacekeeping troops in Ukraine after the war.
    — Daniel Bush, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Decisions made now are rooted in long-term security rather than temporary peacekeeping.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The various countries are also unclear about the goals of the peacekeeping force and what it is supposed to do, according to the Times report.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Last year the White House nixed turning over $11 million in unspent peacekeeping dollars to help Haiti fight cholera.
    — Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 15 June 2018
  • The Marines had been sent to Beirut, Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force in 1982.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The project also explored the idea of an international peacekeeping force to be deployed to Gaza and the West Bank.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The plan also calls for deploying an international peacekeeping force.
    — Nidal Al-Mughrabi, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Russia maintains a peacekeeping force of around 1,500 troops in Transnistria, but that would be nowhere near enough to open a western front against Ukraine.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 27 Apr. 2022
  • As a result, Reagan sent a an international peacekeeping force into Lebanon.
    — Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • African Union peacekeeping troops have been stationed in the country for 10 years, and in that time have pushed al-Shabaab from city centers to rural parts of the country’s west.
    — J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic, 5 May 2017

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