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Example sentences for placid
And the placid beasts still gazing with their mild eyes full of loving.
Donald took umbrage, but he seethed beneath a seemingly placid exterior.
Then he continued on foot until he reached a broad, placid rice paddy, with telephone poles protruding from it at odd angles.
They were relatively dull and placid--and unobservant.
In addition, golf does not take place in a placid, pristine environment.
We can already tell that this endeavor does not lend itself to a placid household.
The alternatives are not placid servitude on the one hand and revolt against servitude on the other.
The heat is searing and the mood placid.
Once pinned, the seal becomes as placid as her pup, which is watching from a few feet away.
Even placid Oman is being dragged into the row.
The placid waters have dropped more than four meters in the last year.
If their expressions are placid, they're pleased.
Scratch the placid surface, however, and the typical workweek teems with fascinating people and events.
Houseboats are usually the stuff of lakes, bays, and placid rivers.
But it was anything but a placid year in the stock market.
It has a gentle ring, suggesting a placid haven for the troubled rather than a bustling marketplace.
But much of the time they seem so placid, you wonder whether they know something.
His hands were shaking slightly as he read on and on, but his voice was a placid monotone.
His demeanor was as placid as that of a midnight watchman finishing his shift.
We made eye contact, but the masked face yielded nothing beyond placid neutrality.
No, a gentle giant, a placid consumer of tiny prey that spends a lot of time basking at the surface.
But beyond the state's borders, the reaction has been anything but placid.
But that placid surface belies the power surging through the water.
It is amazing how quickly this placid political situation has developed.
In the slanting light of late afternoon, the waterway is testimony to a placid, amphibious way of life.
No matter how placid it may look, water always holds danger.
There are also the sports enthusiasts who come to parachute into the placid green fjord waters.
The colonial society seems placid, prospering at a Neolithic level, with the world populated by small farming villages.
There are placid blue moments and moment of angry, house-high waves that take down ships.
They rush through narrow channels, swirl around rocky outcrops, and fan out to form placid pools.
Even in placid weather, floating-column structures bob up and down as the sea heaves beneath them, which can make people seasick.
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