How to Use pacific in a Sentence

pacific

adjective

• The temblor occurred at 7:45 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0 miles.
  — Quakebot, latimes.com, 8 June 2017
• The fight starts around 2 p.m. Pacific time, but catch back beforehand for behind the scenes updates live from ringside.
  — Lance Pugmire, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• The swap: Rose hips Goji berries are valued for their high vitamin C content: Skip the long trek across the pacific, and harvest some rose hips this fall.
  — Christine Buckley, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
• The group will be performing live Sunday during the pre-telecast online at grammy.com, which will start around noon Pacific time.
  — Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
• For more than 50 years, Bonn and later Berlin had taken a pacific approach: Don’t rile the Russians; enmesh them in trade and diplomacy.
  — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
• Louis served in the military police in the pacific, and served as Eleanor Roosevelt's honor-guard on her visit to hospitals in Australia.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2017
• Evans said that an intense influx of pacific air from the west coast could be what is causing warmer temperatures across the country and in Milwaukee.
  — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2023
• Instead, Saturday Night Live will now start at 8:30 p.m. Pacific time.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 16 Mar. 2017
• Other species, such as pacific herring and pigeon guillemots, also haven’t come close to returning to their pre-spill levels.
  — National Geographic, 26 Jan. 2016
• Kaoru Kobayashi plays the taciturn proprietor and chef with the pacific solidity of a 20th century movie hero.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• Male sperm whales literally cover the entire pacific ocean looking for a mate, using sound to navigate and likely, sending out signals that help show off their size.
  — National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2016
• Male sperm whales literally cover the entire pacific ocean looking for a mate, using sound to navigate and likely, sending out signals that help show off their size.
  — Tim Laman, National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2016
• In short, the play begins in a tempestuous way and concludes in a manner that is more pacific or, in this particular geographic case, Mediterranean.
  — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 23 June 2017
• None of Pollini's pacific offerings had, however, light, veiled or relaxed tone.
  — Alan G. Artner, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
• What looks like a cut-and-dried case leads her to ally with Román, born and raised in a seemingly pacific local community which hides a terrifying past of dark crimes and committed in 1999 by a sect which awaited an Apocalypse.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
• Maritime-data providers say the vast majority of trade on Asia-Europe and trans-Pacific trade lanes will be handled by three alliances counting 11 shipping operators.
  — Paul Page, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2017
• Both couples felt that their small-ship sailing with South Pacific specialists Paul Gaugin—often cited as one of the world's best cruise lines for romance—far exceeded expectations.
  — Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2017
• Previously, pacific coast and mountain-time viewers would view primetime coverage on a tape delay.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2018
• California Today goes live at 6 a.m. Pacific time weekdays.
  — Mike McPhate, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• Most Rohingyas have remained remarkably pacific in the face of extraordinary provocation.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• This pacific picture, though, is soon replaced by far more disturbing, recurrent images of perilously small boats filled with frantically shouting, gesturing men, women and children seeking asylum.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• Australian pedophiles are notorious for taking inexpensive vacations to nearby Southeast Asian and Pacific island countries to abuse children there.
  — Associated Press, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• Anti-Semitism had little or no place in Italian fascist doctrine before 1938, reflecting the Italian Jewish community’s relatively pacific existence on the peninsula.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 20 Jan. 2017

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024