How to Use peacemaker in a Sentence

peacemaker

noun
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  • She acted as peacemaker in the dispute.
  • Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
    — Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The 13th is the time to be a peacemaker and make that extra effort to be kind to those less able than you.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 July 2022
  • Who served as a central peacemaker for you two over the years?
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Dev Patel can add peacemaker to the list of skills on his resume.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Baby Lili was born on June 4, and is already quite the peacemaker.
    — Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Josh decides to try and play peacemaker to fix the Big Brother alliance.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • There was no sign that Xi’s efforts to play the role of peacemaker had yielded results.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But Santos, unlike Uribe, hoped to be seen as a peacemaker.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Beijing has offered to do the same in the Ukraine crisis, casting itself as a peacemaker and foil to the United States.
    — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • The world now looks to Abiy, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his work as a regional peacemaker, to pull his country back from the brink.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Be the voice of reason and play peacemaker instead of leaping into a fray.
    — Magi Helena, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Although tarnished by Cold War boycotts in the 1980s, the notion of the Olympics as peacemaker endures.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The image of China as a peacemaker and arbiter gives Xi a further boost.
    — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The prime minister’s record as a peacemaker in Ethiopia is also mixed.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
  • At Vine, her job was to be a peacemaker, building a bridge between the most popular users on the app and the company.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • He's got young dog energy but is also the shaggy peacemaker of the group.
    — Gwen Rockwood, Arkansas Online, 13 May 2021
  • Throughout most of this, Walters played peacemaker, at least on air, and was able to lure high-profile guests onto the show.
    — Jennifer Vineyard, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
  • And with that in mind, don’t feel obligated to be the peacemaker anymore.
    — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2020
  • Sheriff Ash spoke about the dangers of law enforcement and the special role of his deputies as peacemakers.
    — Ian Cummings, Glenn E. Rice, Lauren Fox, Katie Bernard and Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity, 21 June 2018
  • Could the nation that straddles Europe and the Middle East emerge as peacemaker?
    — Galip Dalay, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In the fight between the two teams during the first half of the 2017 game, Thomas played peacemaker separating players from both squads.
    — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Now Mahmoud Abbas was cast as a peacemaker instead of Arafat, who died in 2004.
    — Ron Dermer, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • Big sis was always trying to be the peacemaker between us.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Josephine, a peacemaker trying to convince the people around her to stop the violence.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • And Trump was a peacemaker—a fact obscured by false portrayals of him but perfectly clear when one looks at the record.
    — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • Vasata’s lawyers contended Vasata was just a peacemaker, and pointed to the fact that he was shot in the rampage.
    — Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
  • This feared doomsday scenario, more than anything else, motivates Qatar to try to find a solution before the peacemaker is drawn into a war and forced to choose sides.
    — Allen Fromherz / Made By History, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • They were considered an indispensable part of a company – the problem-solvers, the peacemakers, the glue that kept teams together.
    — Iese Business School, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

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