How to Use peacetime in a Sentence

peacetime

noun

• The size of the army was reduced during peacetime.
• This is the first time the Olympic Games have been postponed in peacetime.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 25 Mar. 2020
• Again, doing so in peacetime, not just in a time of crisis.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 19 July 2024
• The peacetime loss of the $1.2 billion warship is among the largest in the service’s history.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2021
• The ship represents one of the largest peacetime losses ever by the Navy.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2021
• The mass adaptation to cars came with the shift back to peacetime civilian production in the 1950s.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
• In peacetime, army jobs turned out to be more like civil service gigs.
  — Amy Kellogg, Fox News, 14 July 2022
• Yemen also is one of the most water-scarce nations on the planet even in peacetime.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• Instead China wants the upper hand in peacetime, or in crises that fall in the grey zone between peace and war.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• Byrne joined the military in peacetime to pay for college.
  — oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2021
• Some take several days to cross the border into Poland, trips that in peacetime could be made in a day.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Apr. 2022
• But their hope is to get Mr. Putin to begin discussing targets that should be off the table in peacetime.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2021
• In peacetime, pedestrians would look up to see Konashevych on horseback, saber raised to the sky.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• For the past 65 years, the Queen has reigned through wars and peacetime, and through prosperity and hardship in the United Kingdom.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 15 June 2020
• The stampede appeared to be one of the worst peacetime tragedies in Israel’s history.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• The health care system wasn’t built to withstand these kinds of shocks — a problem in need of tackling once peacetime returns.
  — Til Schuermann and Helen Leis, STAT, 29 Dec. 2020
• The world continues to climb back from the worst recession in peacetime since the Great Depression.
  — Kristalina Georgieva For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 7 Mar. 2021
• So this notion of peacetime/wartime doesn't fully resonate with me.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
• But peacetime swaps of civilians, like the one involving Griner, are far less predictable.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2022
• This was also the case in the US, and many veterans, who had depended on the product while deployed, came to loathe it in peacetime.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 26 Dec. 2020
• Not least, for three decades, in peacetime as well as in war, a military draft taught young men about putting country before self.
  — Leslie Lenkowsky, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Because this fleet is only called on in wartime, there is a tendency to neglect it in peacetime.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• In 2000, one of the worst peacetime submarine accidents ever took place off the coast of Russia.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2022
• For one thing, the mortality rate in colonial New York, where the British kept most of their prisoners, was high even in peacetime.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2019
• That having been said, the UGV was not a vital part of the fighting and the whole point of sending the systems to a combat zone was to expose flaws that might not show up in peacetime.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2018
• But the four missile attacks were the first known peacetime shootdowns of unauthorized objects in US airspace.
  — Stephen Groves, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• In Helsinki, large shelters double in peacetime as ice rinks and sports arenas.
  — Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• There is the concept of auctoritas, the respect that is earned by those who lead and govern wisely and bravely, whether in war or peacetime.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
• The largest contingents served in Vietnam or in peacetime, according to the U.S. Census.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2021
• The idea of evacuation would be arduous for many here in peacetime.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024