peace offering

Example Sentences

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He called A.J. as a character witnesses, and A.J. traveled to Washington with a peace offering for his father in their language of jokes.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2023

Although authorities usually warn against feeding wild birds, Prof Kaplan suggests leaving a peace offering like a little bit of bread or meat to win the magpies' favour.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2023

Their existence was a peace offering to the affluent communities above — Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, Yarrow Point and Medina — that worried about increased noise and traffic.

From Seattle Times • May 9, 2023

His obituary in Rafu Shimpo, the Little Tokyo newspaper, called him a culinary ambassador who used “Japanese food as a cultural peace offering to mend the scars left by the World War II experience.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023

I had no idea how far Miles’s definition of legal stretched, but maybe this was his form of a peace offering.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia