How to Use pacification in a Sentence

pacification

noun

• Children played at the pacification centers set up to keep them amused while the parent did some business.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
• Leo has emphasized a message of pacification and unity in the church.
  — CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
• Adding to the problems is the erosion of a pacification program launched several years ago that aimed at building connections between officers and residents.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2017
• This pacification marked, in general terms, the end of the revolutionary phase of the Risorgimento and the beginning of the diplomatic phase.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
• He was hired by Komer a decade later, when the former Vietnam War pacification chief was undersecretary of defense for policy.
  — Washington Post, 12 May 2018
• From that moment of pacification on, Bobby and Chuck’s storylines barely intersected.
  — refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
• The streets were far safer, thanks in part to the city’s pacification police program, which sought to drive out the drug traffickers who had propelled murder rates to deadly highs in the 1990s and were still ubiquitous.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
• Your upbringing by your superiors was pacification, not discipline, which resulted in a lack of accountability.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• As part of the same process of pacification, Japanese intelligence was shrunk, divided into squabbling units and focused narrowly on communists at home and trade secrets abroad.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• Ordinarily, police drives against prostitution are about as effective as pacification programs in Vietnam.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
• With Brazil suffering from a severe recession, some studies suggest 2016 was Rio’s most violent year in decades despite a police pacification program that was meant to curb slum violence.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2017
• Black snipers, in particular, fulfilled political fantasies that demonized all forms of Black resistance as pathological and deserving of violent pacification.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 24 June 2021
• British and American leaders feared civil insurrection in Paris and wanted to avoid the risks of pacification, possibly by force, and then feeding and running a city of 4 million, all delaying the assault on Germany itself.
  — Jean Edward Smith, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• After a tumultuous half century of revolts and pacification, the emperor Augustus granted Vienne the status of colonia and its inhabitants citizenship.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Aug. 2017
• In advance of the 2014 World Cup and now the Olympics, the police and the military pushed at the point of semiautomatic rifles and armored cars into hundreds of favelas in brutal pacification campaigns.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2016
• Ironically, tear gas has continued to be used as a weapon of pacification domestically; law enforcement from local police officers to the National Guard have continued to use tear gas to quell riots and prevent property damage.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
• As governor, Sandoval entrusted Nayarit’s pacification to his acting attorney general, Edgar Veytia.
  — Tim Golden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022