How to Use peacetime in a Sentence

peacetime

noun
  • The size of the army was reduced during peacetime.
  • In peacetime, army jobs turned out to be more like civil service gigs.
    — Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 14 July 2022
  • Elections in Ukraine have been tough in the past two decades, even in peacetime.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
  • This is the first time the Olympic Games have been postponed in peacetime.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 Mar. 2020
  • So this notion of peacetime/wartime doesn't fully resonate with me.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The strait is a crucial waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil is shipped in peacetime.
    — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The strait is a crucial waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil is shipped in peacetime.
    — Josh Boak, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Yemen also is one of the most water-scarce nations on the planet even in peacetime.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2018
  • But the idea of transforming wartime weapons for peacetime use was not without its critics.
    — Longreads, 24 Nov. 2014
  • Because this fleet is only called on in wartime, there is a tendency to neglect it in peacetime.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The ship represents one of the largest peacetime losses ever by the Navy.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2021
  • After the war, Miller struggled to find her place in the peacetime world of magazines and art.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The concept of a national service program in peacetime is not new.
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • In peacetime, pedestrians would look up to see Konashevych on horseback, saber raised to the sky.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • More than 100 ships, including dozens of tankers, would transit the strait each day in peacetime.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • But peacetime swaps of civilians, like the one involving Griner, are far less predictable.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
  • 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 question is whether either side is actually ready for peacetime.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Now in peacetime and with a new set of actors, the time had come to bury the hatchet and settle the issue between once and for all.
    — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
  • El Salvador and Honduras have some of the highest peacetime murder rates in the world.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Even in peacetime, great skill is required to navigate the strait’s narrow channel and busy traffic.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But that Rosh Hashanah service was a time to document a city in peacetime, instead.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The stampede appeared to be one of the worst peacetime tragedies in Israel’s history.
    — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Which amendment prohibits quartering of troops in homes during peacetime?
    — Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • Jim proudly served in the United States Navy during peacetime.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Those same technologies will be just as important in peacetime, helping rebuild a country that will long be scarred by mines.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The plant that proved an airplane could be built like a car then returned to peacetime work, changing hands among automakers as demand shifted.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025

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