beat/turn swords into plowshares

phrase

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