PEACE in a Sentence

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For PEACE, below is one of 393 sentences:
At these moments I wept bitterly and wished that peace would revisit my mind only that I might afford them consolation and happiness.

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 Meanings and Examples of PEACE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
peace
 n.  freedom from disturbance
 n.  a state or period without war
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I wait but for one event, and then I shall repose in peace.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
2  Perpetual fretting at length threw Madame Moritz into a decline, which at first increased her irritability, but she is now at peace for ever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  At these moments I wept bitterly and wished that peace would revisit my mind only that I might afford them consolation and happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  Once commenced, it would quickly be achieved, and I might be restored to my family in peace and happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
6  Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth; the voice of Henry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a transitory peace.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
7  This idea pursued me and tormented me at every moment from which I might otherwise have snatched repose and peace.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
9  Well, be it so; a deadly struggle would then assuredly take place, in which if he were victorious I should be at peace and his power over me be at an end.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
10  My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  On the wall hung a row of portraits, representing the forefathers of the Bellingham lineage, some with armour on their breasts, and others with stately ruffs and robes of peace.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
12  In other words, Mr. Dimmesdale, whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
13  There might be a moment's peace in it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
14  If in all these past seven years," thought he, "I could recall one instant of peace or hope, I would yet endure, for the sake of that earnest of Heaven's mercy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
15  Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
Example Sentence: (183 in 13 pages)
16  See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in peace.
17  Britain and Ireland announce a new peace initiative that would separate political talks from the disarmament issue.
18  The kernel of that message was that peace must not be a source of advantage or disad-vantage for anyone.
19  The United Nations has used/exerted/exercised its authority to restore peace in the area.
20  If you wish for peace, be prepared for war.
21  Total disarmament was stipulated in the peace treaty.
22  Maybe there's something fate can't touch, fate doesn't control how easily you come to peace.
23  The United Nations' work is toward peace.
24  It is madness for a sheep to treat of peace with a wolf.
25  If you want peace, prepare for war.
26  War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
27  To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
28  Real peace doesn't mean absence of war.
29  War is the continuity of policies during peace time, and vice versa.
30  After years of war, the people long for a lasting peace.