peaceable

Example Sentences

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“FPC will continue to fight forward until all peaceable people can fully exercise their right to carry in California and throughout the United States.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024

Why are some societies warlike, and why are some peaceable?

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

The judge said Jenkins was a "peaceable man" of "excellent character" who tended to avoid confrontation but on Christmas night wanted to get Mr Birch away from his family "knowing what he was capable of".

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2023

Black activist Brittany Martin was, for instance, convicted in 2022 of "breaching the peace" for shouting in officers' faces during a peaceable assembly in Sumter, South Carolina, in 2020.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2023

“Divine providence,” the colonist Daniel Gookin wrote, favored “the quiet and peaceable settlement of the English.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann