How to Use peaceable in a Sentence

peaceable

adjective

• The crowd dispersed in a peaceable manner.
• He has a peaceable nature.
• Block vasopressin and the male voles shifted back to their more peaceable selves.
  — National Geographic, 4 Oct. 2017
• There was something peaceable about all of it, the dead breaking bread with the living.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
• And despite their hopeful tenor, these shows’ creation was not always peaceable.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• At first, the two keep to themselves in a largely peaceable coexistence.
  — The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• In a preface, Cavendish invokes fiction as the plainest and most peaceable genre for the expression of wit.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Levy Armstrong points out that the group has been peaceable, which Orput acknowledges.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• If this vision of a peaceable kingdom is unusual, nature imagery abounds.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
• What is more peaceable a form of assembly than the act of walking down a Fifth Avenue sidewalk?
  — Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 18 July 2022
• So having this sort of moment, this peaceable moment between Roman and Shiv isn’t quite right.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• What resulted was not the peaceable kingdom, but at least the French gave up the practice of religious massacre for a time.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• There’s murder most foul in a previously peaceable Irish village in this new mystery drama.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• The animals are listening to a story intended to convey the idea of a peaceable kingdom.
  — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2019
• If peaceable trading isn't your dream, consider the corsair life, pillaging other ships for their precious cargo.
  — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2025
• Human societies are more peaceable but not necessarily more equal.
  — Thomas Morgan, The Conversation, 3 Feb. 2026
• These chases mostly end meekly, sans gore or gunfire, with a peaceable arrest following a certain time-plus-mayhem factor.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• Still, the steady clip of Local-specific tentative deals that have been announced since late March has set an initial peaceable tone.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
• And that is why the US Constitution protects the right of peaceable assembly.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017
• His self-presentation was that of well-meaning and peaceable man with a heart for the poor and a natural identification with working men and women.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
• But Farra insisted that, despite the deaths caused by Israel’s air strikes, there were many other Gazans who still shared his peaceable views.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• This is one of the foundations of respect, a necessary condition for peaceable coexistence.
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• Right next to him could be Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus and co-aggressor against its peaceable neighbor.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• Shooting this city’s law enforcement officers, looting its businesses, and committing arson at the front door of its state courthouse is far from peaceable.
  — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 24 Sep. 2020
• In one study, 18 percent of patients flew, sang, danced, laughed, lectured or enacted other peaceable activities.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• The making of the Jewish state represents perhaps history’s most peaceable in-migration and state creation.
  — WSJ, 19 June 2022
• One of the world’s richest, most peaceable nations, Denmark is halfway through a 12-year plan aimed at promoting social cohesion.
  — Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• But when the pair got engaged in 2015, a dissonance stormed their otherwise peaceable relationship.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2018
• California has more gun laws than any other, yet state lawmakers are still exploring new ways to disarm peaceable residents and leave them at the mercy of criminals.
  — Cody J. Wisniewski, National Review, 27 Apr. 2022
• These scaly, mythical creatures appear in the lore of countless societies, from the pool-dwelling, peaceable dragons of the East to the fiery, venomous demons of the West.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024