Sentence examples for peaceable from inspiring English sources

The word "peaceable" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe people, behavior, or activities that are characterized by peacefulness. For example, "The peaceable villagers celebrated their recent victory with a festive dinner."

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peaceable

adjective

Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.).

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Hughes said Gilmour was "plainly a talented man" and references from people described him as a person "generally of gentle and peaceable disposition".

Yet countries do escape poverty, and do not always grow more peaceable in the process.As a background paper to the WDR shows, almost 70% of wars and conflicts took place in the poorest quarter of countries in the 1960s; little more than 10% then took place in the next quarter up, the lower-middle income countries.

He is calling for a campaign of civil action, peaceable, but determined.

But it serves no good purpose to distort their beliefs and far less to tar-brush the peaceable PNV.

Why punish millions of peaceable supporters and the team itself for the actions of a few hundred thugs?

That peaceable image is only partly justified: contagious rioting has broken out before, typically during the summer, including in the 1980s, when Tottenham and some of the other flashpoint areas this week last erupted.

The Norwegians are among the most peaceable people on earth these days, whatever they may have got up to during Viking times.

Recently, NATO offered to revise CFE totals down further, so as to reassure Russia of its peaceable intentions.

However, while it is contemplating banning peaceable Ahmadiyah, the government has been reluctant to prohibit JI despite its atrocious violence.

Crake's secret "Paradice Project" is the creation of a perfect race: peaceable, vegetarian and cellulite-free.

Few have pushed back against the military spendthrifts, who argue that America would swiftly decline were it to return to the level of funding George Bush laboured under at the end of his peaceable presidency.I'm not sure if this means we need to educate our congressmen, or simply stop listening to them.

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