How to Use placid in a Sentence

placid

adjective

• Fishing boats churned across the placid waters of the harbor.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• But though the tempo of her music was fast, the vibe was placid.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2023
• It’s just kind of strange to see such a weirdly placid look on her face.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• The river is rather placid in this area, and there are plenty of spots to fish along the banks.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Tran goes to join the few women still bobbing in the dark, placid water.
  — Jessica Wapner, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2019
• All the while, the placid expression on his face never changed.
  — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• But insipid décor isn’t the only route to a placid space.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• On this summer day, the world looked placid over on Calumet too.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• My marginalia became a series of handholds on the placid smoothness of the page.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• The water was placid, the clouds dark but between the darkest escaped rays of light.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• Well, perhaps placid isn’t the word to describe Justin.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
• A couple inflatable pool toys could be fun to float on in the placid water.
  — idahostatesman, 24 May 2016
• Tiny spots of bright, white light speckling a jet black field suggest a placid night sky.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Once placid meetings now erupt in chaos with heckling, protests and even death threats.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• The mood is placid, and the ground is covered in AstroTurf.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 15 July 2021
• There was rain and there was sun, windy spurts and placid spells, lucky birdies and unlucky bogeys.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 18 July 2019
• On the far shore, across five miles of placid water, lights in the city of Tiberias were blinking off.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• But the placid tone of Proctor’s life is shattered early in the novel.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• Except for a small wake from a passing ferry, the river was placid.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
• But as his boat pulls away from the landing, his normally placid face turns cloudy.
  — Georgina Gustin, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
• When the weather is calm, most of these bodies of water are pretty placid.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2018
• Her face is like the placid surface of a lake, never giving anything away.
  — Katie Walsh, star-telegram.com, 9 June 2017
• At the moment, the teams were facing conditions as placid as a bathtub.
  — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
• But she was disturbed by the seemingly placid mood among her classmates.
  — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
• When the sun sets, the seemingly placid waters teem with thousands of leeches.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
• While the stock and bond markets have been on a wild ride, mortgage rates have been fairly placid the last few weeks.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• The British band Dry Cleaning is at once chaotic and placid.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 June 2021
• One features a placid moon, the other portrays a girl submerged in water.
  — Julia Barajas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• There’s no need to worry, judging from the placid expression on her face.
  — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 21 Dec. 2017
• Today, the three-block green space, shaded by rare elm trees, is more placid.
  — C. J. Hughes, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017

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