How to Use placid in a Sentence

placid

adjective

• But though the tempo of her music was fast, the vibe was placid.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2023
• The Varanger Fjord was placid leading out to the Barents Sea.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• On this summer day, the world looked placid over on Calumet too.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• It’s just kind of strange to see such a weirdly placid look on her face.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• The mood is placid, and the ground is covered in AstroTurf.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 15 July 2021
• The river is rather placid in this area, and there are plenty of spots to fish along the banks.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Well, perhaps placid isn’t the word to describe Justin.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2018
• Fishing boats churned across the placid waters of the harbor.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• On the far shore, across five miles of placid water, lights in the city of Tiberias were blinking off.
  — Matti Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• The style is full of close-ups, on the woman’s boots, on the rocks, and on Woodvine’s always placid face.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2023
• Tran goes to join the few women still bobbing in the dark, placid water.
  — Jessica Wapner, Quartz, 1 Dec. 2019
• The British band Dry Cleaning is at once chaotic and placid.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 June 2021
• All the while, the placid expression on his face never changed.
  — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• But insipid décor isn’t the only route to a placid space.
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• The clouds aren’t placid but constantly on the move, whipping around the planet in two to four days.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
• The water was placid, the clouds dark but between the darkest escaped rays of light.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• But the placid tone of Proctor’s life is shattered early in the novel.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• There was rain and there was sun, windy spurts and placid spells, lucky birdies and unlucky bogeys.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 18 July 2019
• The contrast of the urban (think graffiti) with the placid (think canal tour boats) is one of the distinct charms of the walk.
  — Melissa Liebling-Goldberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2018
• Today, the three-block green space, shaded by rare elm trees, is more placid.
  — C. J. Hughes, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• The lake itself was placid and shallow, tranquil and still.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• Tiny spots of bright, white light speckling a jet black field suggest a placid night sky.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Once placid meetings now erupt in chaos with heckling, protests and even death threats.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• Though Higdon’s placid on the surface, nothing feels easy to her.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Or was the rage hiding in plain sight, coursing beneath the surface of even this placid scene?
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• My marginalia became a series of handholds on the placid smoothness of the page.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• Indra's Net, the Hindu weave, is a more static, more placid grid.
  — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
• And Uys’s portrait of the San as living in placid isolation?
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• The skyscraper-like corn is a part of rural America as much as cavernous red barns and placid cows.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2024
• Popular on Variety This placid picture is first disturbed when Soo-jin gets woken by her husband’s snore — or rather its sudden absence.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024