adjective
Examples of peaceful in a Sentence
It was so peaceful here.
Our guests deserve a quiet and peaceful visit.
It was so peaceful out here - like another world.
It was after nine before the two had time to talk, and come to some sort of peaceful understanding.
The kingdom appeared peaceful from a distance.
It is so fresh, and peaceful and free!
But if Sunday was peaceful, at least by recent standards, Monday was anything but.
A peaceful quiet settled over them until she spoke again.
The air between them was as calm and peaceful as it was raging around them.
It was so quiet and peaceful – unlike my night.
He was beginning to like these peaceful encounters.
Free and peaceful societies function best when government is transparent and open.
But the peaceful sleep he'd assumed would come eluded him as his mind continued to trip over far too many loose ends in the recent happenings.
I was witness to events of a less peaceful character.
From privates to general they were not expecting a battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the horses and the infantry collecting wood.
Here also it was found possible to dispense with garrisons, not because the provinces were as peaceful as Narbonensis, but because the Rhine army was close at hand.
The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented itself to him.
Her days were long but peaceful, wrought with duty and rest.
He knew one way of life, and that way had no place in the peaceful society she hoped to return to.
Her eyes closed, and she slept deeply, the first peaceful night of slumber since her last night with him.
More even than this, in your wickedness you destroy the peaceful homes of your clients!
The walk was peaceful, the starry night and thrum of crickets easing her tired mind.
It was so peaceful and she felt so content with his arms around her.
He hadn't been able to sleep in two days but fell fast into a deep, peaceful slumber.
They had looked so peaceful, so comfortable, and she never understood the appeal until this moment.
Just then he was only anxious to get away as quickly as possible from places where people were killing one another, to some peaceful refuge where he could recover himself, rest, and think over all the strange new facts he had learned; but on reaching Orel he immediately fell ill.
All was not quite as it seemed in the peaceful compound.
In spite of the situation, it was peaceful riding with him.
He released her, the peaceful moment over.
He gathered her warm body in his arms and smoothed away the curls that clung to his face, breathing her deep scent before he dropped into the first peaceful slumber in ages.
All these forces were equally necessarythe revolutionists to keep up agitation and make government by bayonets impossible; the moderates to curb the impetuosity of the revolutionists and to present a scheme of society that was neither reactionary nor anarchical; the volunteers abroad to gain military experience; and the more peaceful exiles to spread the name of Italy among foreign peoples.
We are pursuing a peaceful, diplomatic solution through a multilateral forum.
Not only are we eliminating historically warlike forms of government, we are replacing them with peaceful ones, namely democracy.
In more serene surroundings perhaps we could come to some understanding and move forward in a mutually peaceful way.
The peaceful, snowy park was now swarmed with Immortals and demons fighting.
The peaceful development of Athenian power was interrupted by the revolt of Samos in 440.
As a rule the tribes are peaceful.
The privileges of the Roman patriciate, whatever we may call them, were not usurpations; and, if we call the privileges of the Venetian nobility usurpations, they were stealthy and peaceful usurpations, founded on something other than mere violence.
The ambassadors at Constantinople urged peaceful counsels on the Porte, and the Sultan, alarmed at this juncture by an Armenian outbreak, began to display a conciliatory disposition.
We recently acquired a small area of garden ground which we would like to make into a peaceful area to be used by pupils.
Fritton Lake Woodland Lodges are in a peaceful woodland setting adjoining the lake.
This triggers a gentle and peaceful wake up response running in tune to your natural biorhythm.
A remote and peaceful Island attracting pilgrims all year round.
We have also enjoyed the peaceful location of your very well-appointed flat.
Surely second thoughts didn't come abruptly in the middle of a peaceful ride, or tie a persons' insides in knots.
The proprietary period (1663-1729) was a turbulent one, in spite of the supposedly peaceful influence of the Quakers.
Later on Hermann Schyn claimed descent for the peaceful Baptists from the Waldensians, who certainly, as the records of the Flemish inquisition, collected by P. Fredericq, prove, were wide-spread during the 15th century over north France and Flanders.
The enemy escaped, but a peaceful settlement was made by the good offices of Odo of Canterbury and Wulfstan of York.
Under the peaceful influences of British rule, he has completely lost his ancient warlike instincts, and forgotten his predatory habits.
Bede notices the peaceful state of Britain at this time, and relates that Edwin was preceded on his progresses by a kind of standard like that borne before the Roman emperors.