How to Use pacific in a Sentence

pacific

adjective
  • The temblor occurred at 7:45 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0 miles.
    — Quakebot, latimes.com, 8 June 2017
  • The episodes will also air on Starz on Fridays at 8 p.m. eastern and pacific.
    — Town & Country, 16 June 2023
  • The press censor—for so long a malevolent presence in the lives of even the most pacific journalists—was largely set aside.
    — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The fight starts around 2 p.m. Pacific time, but catch back beforehand for behind the scenes updates live from ringside.
    — Lance Pugmire, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • The swap: Rose hips Goji berries are valued for their high vitamin C content: Skip the long trek across the pacific, and harvest some rose hips this fall.
    — Christine Buckley, Bon Appetit, 19 July 2017
  • The group will be performing live Sunday during the pre-telecast online at grammy.com, which will start around noon Pacific time.
    — Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 10 Feb. 2017
  • For more than 50 years, Bonn and later Berlin had taken a pacific approach: Don’t rile the Russians; enmesh them in trade and diplomacy.
    — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The median age for Native Hawaiian and pacific islanders increased the most by 2.6 years in the eight-year period.
    — Bloomberg News, al.com, 21 June 2019
  • According to Farmer's Almanac, the last Halloween full moon occurred in 2001, but only for central and pacific time zones.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Louis served in the military police in the pacific, and served as Eleanor Roosevelt's honor-guard on her visit to hospitals in Australia.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Evans said that an intense influx of pacific air from the west coast could be what is causing warmer temperatures across the country and in Milwaukee.
    — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The pacific island nation exported $2.8 billion of logs and sawed products last year and about 70% went to the world’s second-largest economy.
    — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • Instead, Saturday Night Live will now start at 8:30 p.m. Pacific time.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Other species, such as pacific herring and pigeon guillemots, also haven’t come close to returning to their pre-spill levels.
    — National Geographic, 26 Jan. 2016
  • And then, of course, there was Allende’s pacific…revolution.
    — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Kaoru Kobayashi plays the taciturn proprietor and chef with the pacific solidity of a 20th century movie hero.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Male sperm whales literally cover the entire pacific ocean looking for a mate, using sound to navigate and likely, sending out signals that help show off their size.
    — Tim Laman, National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2016
  • Male sperm whales literally cover the entire pacific ocean looking for a mate, using sound to navigate and likely, sending out signals that help show off their size.
    — National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2016
  • In short, the play begins in a tempestuous way and concludes in a manner that is more pacific or, in this particular geographic case, Mediterranean.
    — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 23 June 2017
  • None of Pollini's pacific offerings had, however, light, veiled or relaxed tone.
    — Alan G. Artner, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2017
  • What looks like a cut-and-dried case leads her to ally with Román, born and raised in a seemingly pacific local community which hides a terrifying past of dark crimes and committed in 1999 by a sect which awaited an Apocalypse.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Maritime-data providers say the vast majority of trade on Asia-Europe and trans-Pacific trade lanes will be handled by three alliances counting 11 shipping operators.
    — Paul Page, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2017
  • There is a lot of experimentation going on in the western pacific with things like what are called multi-domain task forces, task forces that might see an Army unit using anti-ship missiles to target ships at sea, all sorts of different things.
    — CBS News, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Both couples felt that their small-ship sailing with South Pacific specialists Paul Gaugin—often cited as one of the world's best cruise lines for romance—far exceeded expectations.
    — Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Previously, pacific coast and mountain-time viewers would view primetime coverage on a tape delay.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The Seattle Aquarium also has an awesome library of videos, including events like pacific red octopus hatching from their eggs and sea otter training sessions.
    — Kate Wertheimer, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Partly for this reason—and because of his vulnerability in the face of sudden and drastic changes—there’s something innocently pacific and constructive about the furies that emerge from Tomas’s guileless candor and impulsive ardor.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • California Today goes live at 6 a.m. Pacific time weekdays.
    — Mike McPhate, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2016
  • California Today goes live at 6 a.m. Pacific time weekdays.
    — Mike McPhate, New York Times, 6 June 2017
  • Most Rohingyas have remained remarkably pacific in the face of extraordinary provocation.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017

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