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Example sentences for "peace time"

  • It was thus impossible to meet the demands even of the ordinary traffic in peace time, apart altogether from any question as to military requirements in time of war.

  • Stores were handed to the railway staffs under the same conditions as in peace time, the idea being, apparently, that if they were only dispatched as soon as possible they would be sure to get to the troops in want of them.

  • An officer of the Quartermaster-General's department visits the Transport department frequently in peace time, and in war time he is placed at the Admiralty to assist the Director of Transports in military questions.

  • At Arlon I climbed the steeple in accordance with the tactical principles which we had been taught in peace time.

  • While advancing our infantry, and indeed, our whole division, manoeuvred exactly as in peace time.

  • It is uncomfortable enough to stop in a tunnel in peace time, but to stop suddenly in war is still more uncomfortable.

  • I was named after my uncle Manfred, who in peace time, was adjutant to His Majesty and Commander of the Corps of the Guards.

  • The necessity of recruiting and educating the necessary corps of professional officers required to train and command such an army would have occupied at least two generations if the task were to be taken in hand in peace time.

  • It takes many years in peace time to train such officers.

  • Tactical, military, or naval agents, who look into minor details of armament and terrain in peace time.

  • Strategical and diplomatic agents, who study the political and military conditions in peace time of all other countries which might eventually be in opposition to their own in war.

  • Consequently officers are often employed to obtain such information in peace time as well as in the theatre of action in war.

  • I can speak feelingly from more than one experience of it, since I have myself been employed on this form of scouting in peace time.

  • All other Rumanian troops which did not exist in peace time will at the end of their term of active military service remain as in peace time.

  • Herr Mueller, who seemed to be in a position to confirm the statistics given in the memorandum, pointed out that the supply of indispensable foodstuffs was, at the time of writing, less than the normal supply in peace time.

  • It seems such a farce to establish shoemakers' shops in peace time, when there are hundreds of civilian cobblers to be had, and then, immediately a regiment goes on service and the shop would be of some benefit, to close it.

  • Things like this also happen in peace time, but not so obviously.

  • How they have suffered, those who drive up to our city hospitals in limousines, in peace time.

  • Prisoners are sent to this regiment in peace time, and in time of war, they fight in the trenches as do the others, but with small chance of being decorated.

  • The foregoing statement as to the three categories of defences would be accepted anywhere now: the differences of opinion come in when we reach the stage of classifying under the first head the permanent works to be constructed in peace time.

  • Armoured batteries of whatever kind must in any case be prepared in peace time.

  • If they are to resist the heaviest shell, such shelters must be built in peace time.

  • It may be said that the more elaborately organised and trained in peace time an armed force happened to be, the more unexpected always, and generally the more disastrous, was its downfall.

  • We shall ascertain the position that it should hold, if we examine what it would have to do when called upon for work more active than that of peace time.

  • In peace time we know nearly exactly what the expenditure of ammunition within a given length of time--say, a quarter of a year--will be.

  • When one considers the state of things in Germany in peace time we can be proud.

  • To deal with meat which in other countries would be regarded as unfit for human consumption there have long been special appliances in regular use in peace time.

  • These regulations, I again remind the reader, were in force in peace time.

  • No impartial thinker can deny that the cession of Antwerp to England would have been a breach of neutrality on the part of Belgium, even if it had occurred in peace time.

  • Footnote 121: Certainly, just as in Germany in peace time.

  • They who have seen so much of the levity of peace time, so much of the sorrow of war, have come to their end at last.

  • Over and over again the suave voice of the croupier seemed to ring in my ears--as it had so often rung in this very room in peace time.

  • Just as quickly as in peace time," he retorted.

  • It has its tentacles everywhere, high up and low down, in Italy and abroad, in peace time and in war time, when our native land is elated with good fortune and when it is cast down with bad.

  • There remained the charger which he had had with his battery in peace time, and which he now used for all ordinary work--and Dignity.

  • In peace time it would have been regarded as a quite ordinary day, boring because of its resemblance to so many others.

  • In Germany in 1905, it is stated, nearly half the contingent was excused from serving in peace time, over and above the usual numbers exempted or medically rejected.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peace time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    center field; come doun; feet above the level; horse wagon; main road; peace and; peace commissioner; peace negotiations; peace offering; peace offerings; peace time; peace were; peace will; peace with; peace would; peaceful settlement; peaceful solution; person whom; precious blood; said simply; sometimes necessary; tobacco smoke; walked about; wonderful manner; would not have been; your cousin