PEACEABLE in a Sentence
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25 example sentences for PEACEABLE, such as:
1. They cooperate in a peaceable spirit.
2. An obscure street, peaceable inhabitants.
3. She was a good girl, who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable.
4. Conversations between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults.
5. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took her seat at his left.
2. An obscure street, peaceable inhabitants.
3. She was a good girl, who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable.
4. Conversations between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults.
5. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took her seat at his left.
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Meanings and Examples of PEACEABLE
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peaceable
a. disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature
a. not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1 However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.
2 The Huron, at least, seemed assured that the intentions of this singular intruder were peaceable, for after giving it an attentive examination, he quietly pursued his course.
3 We was a-standin purty peaceable fer a spell, though there was men runnin ev'ry way all round us, an while we was a-standin like that, long come a big fat feller.
4 Quiet and peaceable in his disposition, he hoped, by unremitting diligence, to avert from himself at least a portion of the evils of his condition.
5 He made me submit; he made me be peaceable; he flattered me with hopes that, perhaps, he would buy them back; and so things went on, a week or two.
6 Legree, in a fury, swore she should be put to field service, if she would not be peaceable.
7 Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took her seat at his left.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
8 She was a good girl, who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable.
9 Conversations between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
10 An obscure street, peaceable inhabitants.
11 For the last hour, that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, the uproar of a fly in a bottle.
12 Induced by these feelings, I was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon, and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus.
13 A pot of beer had appeared from the Jolly Bargemen, and they were sharing it by turns in a peaceable manner.
14 That miserable man would seem for a time to have become convinced of his errors, when far removed from the scenes of his old offences, and to have lived a peaceable and honest life.
15 Tientietnikov was a kindly and peaceable man, yet his eyes flashed as he said this, and his voice vibrated with wounded feeling.
Example Sentence:
1 She called the breakup peaceable and said that they planned to continue raising their two young children together.
2 They cooperate in a peaceable spirit.