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Example sentences for "peace times"

  • Before the war, if you recall, even in peace times, the proportion of women was always larger.

  • The streets of Nice were filled with strangers just as in peace times, when the Carnival was celebrated.

  • The cannon firing on Paris from an extraordinary distance filled the gambling rooms with a well-dressed crowd, almost as numerous as that of peace times.

  • He was no longer able to find anything worth serving at a table like that of the Prince, and even so, the prices that he paid roused his indignation when he compared them with those of peace times!

  • The place had been used evidently as a barracks for French soldiers in peace times, and was fitted to the uses of our army.

  • Fathers, husbands, sweethearts of peace times are at the front or dead.

  • In peace times it would be regarded as a crazy man's deed, to go whizzing along at full speed without lights.

  • But whatever structural difficulties have yet to be overcome in connection with the airplane, certain it is that the big birds which we saw so often in the sky during the war, are going to be yet numerous in peace times.

  • Thus the parachute was instrumental in saving many lives during the Great War, and in peace times it will probably be further developed for use in connection with the airplane as well as the balloon.

  • The enormous boom that has been given to aircraft production by the war ought to have at least one happy result in peace times: it should reduce the cost of the airplane.

  • First, because we have enemies enough, and, secondly, because in peace times, our relations with America are always most friendly.

  • At that time this battlefield, which a year and a half later was destined to be the scene of the greatest slaughter in history, was as quiet and beautiful as this picturesque country of northern France was in peace times.

  • One day he discovered eleven prominent English civilians, former respected residents in Berlin, living in a box stall similar to one which his riding horse had occupied in peace times.

  • In the room where the court balls had been held in peace times, a certain number of the members of the Reichstag were assembled.

  • In peace times a skilled mechanic in Germany received less than two dollars a day, for which he was compelled to work at least ten hours.

  • Accompanied by an adjutant, in peace times a local lawyer from the corps commander's office in Magdeburg, and other officers, I visited these British officers in their cells in the common jail at Magdeburg.

  • This was in peace times, and the transport was conveying hay.

  • But the distinction between such conditions here and the pre-war conditions in Germany is that they obtained, although in milder form, in Germany in peace times as well.

  • Its gravity was not at first realized, because Kiel, even in peace times, had been a turbulent and riotous city.

  • Public opinion in Great Britain and all over the British Empire, as well as in the United States, has always been against conscription in peace times, until the present war.

  • A German 1st-lieutenant, on active service before the war, had left the service because there was not enough for him to do in peace times.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peace times" 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:
    come down; fossil species; guns each; large group; little anxiously; looking around; looking south; loved you; melancholy tone; peace commissioner; peace negotiations; peace offerings; peace times; peace treaty; peace were; peace with; peace would; peaceful settlement; peaceful solution; preserving kettle; reducing them; sovereign authority; strengthen their; unleavened bread; well assured; white disk