How to Use the Peace Corps in a Sentence

the Peace Corps

noun
  • And Al worked for a time in the Peace Corps in Africa, where soccer is beloved.
    — Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • And then there is the dreamer artist and author who at 50 dropped everything and joined the Peace Corps.
    — David Kravet, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
  • One of my parents’ highest aspirations for a child was to someday join the Peace Corps.
    — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
  • These adults could join the military or the Peace Corps, coach youth sports, volunteer at a hospital, etc.
    — Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Shriver, who was the founding director of the Peace Corps, died in 2011.
    — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Shriver was President Kennedy’s first director of the Peace Corps.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024
  • More than 31,243 residents from this state have served in the Peace Corps since 1961.
    — Magda Liszewska, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Grant began a second stint as a teacher in Harford County following four years in the Peace Corps.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2023
  • At the same time, the Peace Corps has struggled with recruiting given a strong domestic job market and less interest in volunteer work.
    — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 July 2025
  • That led to roles in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, including deputy director of the Peace Corps.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • This was the impulse that led tens of thousands of young people to join the Peace Corps, participate in sit-ins, freedom rides, marches against segregation and the denial of the vote.
    — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • And the excitement of being on that plane in 1960 and the early days of the Peace Corps at the University of Michigan.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
  • That service extends not just to our men and boys, but also to everyone through the California Service Corps, now larger than the Peace Corps.
    — Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Schwarz joins the 346 California residents currently serving in the Peace Corps.
    — Magda Liszewska, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • With an annual budget of more than $400 million, the Peace Corps has long been popular with Democrats and Republicans.
    — Nathan Layne, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The 29-year-old spent much of his post-college years in financial limbo, with stints working gig economy jobs to pay down debt bookending a fulfilling, if not very lucrative, few years in the Peace Corps.
    — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Those who qualify for a hardship deferment include people receiving certain types of federal or state aid and anyone volunteering in the Peace Corps, Kantrowitz said.
    — Kamaron McNair,annie Nova, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Those who qualify for a hardship deferment include people receiving certain types of federal or state aid and anyone volunteering in the Peace Corps, Kantrowitz said.
    — Annie Nova, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Sometimes this was committed to good, such as the Marshall Plan and the Peace Corps, and sometimes to ill, as in a series of military blunders meant to quash godless Communism.
    — Jim Rasenberger, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
  • The building has a rooftop bar that will be called the Black Rooster, a throwback to the pub of the same name that opened in 1970 on the ground floor but shuttered just as the Peace Corps was preparing to move out.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • The economic hardship deferment, meanwhile, is generally available to student loan borrowers who receive public assistance, earn below a certain income threshold or work in the Peace Corps.
    — Annie Nova, CNBC, 17 June 2025
  • Keenan had spent time in the Peace Corps and had drifted around the world afterward, coming away with the conception that Americans’ ignorance of other cultures had led the country directly into the wood chipper of Vietnam.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • In 1963, Zagar met artist Julia Zagar and the pair were married three months later and joined the Peace Corps as conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.
    — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The Fall and Rise, the Kennedy smuggled back a 16-pound leopard tortoise following a trip to Africa with his cousin Bobby Shriver and uncle Sargent Shriver, who was the director of the Peace Corps.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 26 May 2026
  • After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1983, Hastings considered joining the Marine Corps but ultimately joined the Peace Corps, teaching math in Eswatini for two years.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Last Friday, the White House announced the establishment of the Peace Corps, an initiative within the Peace Corps aimed at promoting American AI interests abroad and helping partner nations adopt cutting-edge systems.
    — Matthew Chin, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Christy Grimsley, who spent nearly two decades in international development after joining the Peace Corps in 2003, was laid off from a training and leadership development firm that contracted with USAID.
    — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • If a country wants to improve agriculture through precision farming, apply AI to healthcare systems to improve hospital efficiency, or modernize digital public services, American technologists through the Tech Corps and the Peace Corps will be able to support those efforts.
    — Tanvi Ratna, FOXNews.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Barned-Smith started his career at the Philadelphia Daily News, served in the Peace Corps, in Paraguay, and worked at the Montgomery Gazette, in Maryland, before joining Hearst Newspapers in 2014.
    — Michael Barba, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2024
  • Barned-Smith started his career at the Philadelphia Daily News, served in the Peace Corps, in Paraguay, and worked at the Montgomery Gazette, in Maryland, before joining Hearst Newspapers in 2014.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026

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