beat/turn swords into plowshares

idiom

literary
: to stop fighting wars and begin to live peacefully

Examples of beat/turn swords into plowshares in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Atoms for Peace, the postwar federal nuclear-power program announced by President Dwight Eisenhower, in 1953, aimed to turn swords into plowshares. Daniel Ford, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2022 This is the same European Union based on a post-World War II peace project that would only turn swords into plowshares to recreate a welfare continent of unprecedented riches. Raf Casert, ajc, 28 Feb. 2022

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beat/turn swords into plowshares

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