How to Use olive branch in a Sentence

olive branch

noun

• The winner extended an olive branch to his opponent by calling him a great player.
• Evans was the one to reach out and extend the olive branch.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 18 May 2024
• When Collins moved the olive branch from beak to talons, the image was locked.
  — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
• Lala Kent starts to send an olive branch of sorts to Rachel in the premiere.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2024
• Forget an olive branch, gift them the whole olive tree.
  — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2022
• The rest will remain between the two women, but the olive branch worked.
  — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
• But that olive branch wasn’t a precursor of what was to come.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
• The olive branches at the bottom of the emblem also came from the Great Seal of the United States.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 14 May 2018
• Daniel's olive branch comes just when Johnny needs it most.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 1 Jan. 2022
• Nachmanides wonders: If the whole world was destroyed, from where did the dove bring the olive branch?
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• Except his olive branch and this plan carry a few thorns.
  — Andrew Callahan, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
• That move was viewed as an olive branch to companies like Tile.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
• The olive branch, stands for the settlers, and the peace pipe, for Indigenous people, appear on top of the shield.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• The olive branch, stands for the settlers, and the peace pipe, for Indigenous people, appear on top of the shield.
  — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
• An olive branch here or there by Manfred isn’t going to change that.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2022
• But Democrats are still hoping to offer them an olive branch.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021
• But the proposal was never meant as an olive branch to Maduro.
  — Anthony Faiolaand Carol Morello, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2020
• There have been some signs Beijing is willing to extend the olive branch.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• The logo for the visit depicted a dove with an olive branch.
  — Aya Batrawy, The Seattle Times, 5 Feb. 2019
• As a show of an olive branch, Colbert said Trump also offered a bit of hope.
  — Patrick Shanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2018
• Among the crowd were children waving palms and olive branches.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2023
• But Leakes’ olive branch likely isn’t enough to change Williams’ standing with the rest of the Atlanta Housewives.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• Or offering an olive branch in the form of a miracle surgery.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2022
• The real seal has a bald eagle clutching arrows in one set of talons and an olive branch in the other.
  — NBC News, 25 July 2019
• Dyer extended an olive branch to James, writing in a tweet that the two should grab a bite to eat the next time James is in town.
  — Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 30 May 2021
• Speaking of love, Mark is ready to offer Debbie an olive branch.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
• This seemed to be the end of the drama, and Austin has held out an olive branch to the couple, who recently welcomed their fifth child.
  — Temi Adebowale, House Beautiful, 3 July 2018
• But if bodycam footage is an olive branch from the police to the people, what is the goodwill token back to the police?
  — Hannah Meyers, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2020
• Some people wondered if the reality TV star was trying to extend an olive branch of sorts to the singer.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 22 July 2024
• But now, King admits that she wasn’t particularly impressed by this olive branch.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024