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olive branch
noun as in peace offering
Example Sentences
The junta extended an olive branch Thursday as it struggled to fight on multiple fronts and stem a widespread rebellion.
Is this an olive branch from Prince Harry?
With their decidedly more centrist message, Harris and Walz are offering an olive branch and permission structure to leave a man who has shown in words and deeds that he will harm them.
“I think it’s the ultimate olive branch to the environmental community,” he said, and a “show of good faith on the part of the city.”
Yet he may also extend a tentative olive branch to Beijing, welcoming renewed talks if China’s leader, Xi Jinping, sets aside his key precondition: that Taiwan accept that it is a part of China.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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