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
• This was the largest peacetime tax hike since World War II.
  — Julian E. Zelizer, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• 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
• After the war, Miller struggled to find her place in the peacetime world of magazines and art.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
• El Salvador and Honduras have some of the highest peacetime murder rates in the world.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2017
• 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
• But Neller and other Corp leaders told the force they should be prepared for a change in their peacetime mission, should the need arise.
  — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 23 Dec. 2017
• At last count 17 people were confirmed dead in what some have already called one of Britain’s worst peacetime fires since the Blitz.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity.com, 15 June 2017
• 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
• Lowe went to the game with the three veterans — one served during peacetime and the other two are Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2018
• But that Rosh Hashanah service was a time to document a city in peacetime, instead.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 20 Sep. 2017
• 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
• But the idea of transforming wartime weapons for peacetime use was not without its critics.
  — Longreads, 24 Nov. 2014
• Jim proudly served in the United States Navy during peacetime.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The United States has an anachronistic contracting and acquisitions system that is much better suited for the leisurely pace of peacetime than for the urgency of wartime.
  — Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024