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UK
/pˈiːsfəl/
]
[ US /ˈpisfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpisfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
peacefully resistant in response to injustice
passive resistance -
not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war
a peaceful nation
peaceful times
a far from peaceful Christmas
peaceful sleep
How To Use peaceful In A Sentence
- When the baby is not thriving and gaining steadily in weight, or is fretty and cries a good deal, and does not rest and sleep peacefully, something, of course, is wrong. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies
- The original Auroran settlers had landed in the location that was now the park and decided to keep it as a peaceful retreat in the centre of the city.
- The whole atmosphere was joyful and peaceful even in damp miserable conditions.
- Meanwhile taking strong note of the police behaviour towards peaceful students demonstration leaders of the central university andolan samiti have threatened to intensify their agitation in support of their demands. NC-Congress coalition government responsible for the agitation on Central University issue
- The new law will still allow peaceful picketing.
- Cottier and Company have converted into a place of princely but peaceful splendor.
- It documents dozens of cases where security forces opened fire on peaceful protests. Times, Sunday Times
- In this atmosphere the two countries worked out peaceful solutions to a number of old problems. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
- They all support a peaceful transition.
- The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson