Sample Sentences for
placid
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  • An electric tenseness filled the air, but Mr. Jamison's placid face was unchanged by the threat.  (source)
  • A small wrinkle of concern marred her usually placid forehead.  (source)
  • I scan their faces, trying to look as placid as possible.  (source)
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  • Hard to the east is the Salton Sea, a placid ocean in miniature, its surface more than two hundred feet below sea level, created in 1905 by a monumental engineering snafu: Not long after a canal was dug from the Colorado River to irrigate rich farmland in the Imperial Valley, the river breached its banks during a series of major floods, carved a new channel, and began to gush unabated into the Imperial Valley Canal.  (source)
    placid = calm
  • Gilderoy Lockhart was sitting there, humming placidly to himself.  (source)
    placidly = calmly
  • Desperation and placidity.  (source)
    placidity = calmness
  • "Astonishing!" said Joe, in the placidest way.  (source)
    placidest = calmest
  • This is not a plea for placidness of mind or feebleness of spirit.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • Franny unplacidly crossed her legs.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unplacidly means not and reverses the meaning of placidly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • They are a contented group, placid and good-natured, although, like any family, they bicker from time to time.  (source)
    placid = calm and not easily excited
  • Meg flushed with rage, but Charles Wallace answered placidly, "That's right."  (source)
    placidly = calmly
  • Her only real comfort was when the child lay in the placidity of sleep.  (source)
    placidity = calmness
  • She had hunted Britain over for me; had found me at the hanging-bout outside of London, and had straightway resumed her old place at my side in the placidest way and as of right.†  (source)
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