olive branchin a sentence
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Nor could the olive branch she offered me—I've changed—been braver, or more sincere.† (source)
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Perhaps a quarter of an hour later, Papa held a cigarette olive branch in his palm—the paper and tobacco he'd just received.† (source)
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I felt bad about how our first encounter had ended, and I waited for an opportunity to extend some sort of olive branch to the two samurai.† (source)
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It's never too late to hold out an olive branch.† (source)
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Anne grabbed the olive branch I was meant to carry and situated it in my arm.† (source)
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I couldn't handle another compliment, another kind word from my wife, another olive branch.† (source)
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You know the story of Noah: lots of rain, major flood, ark, cubits, dove, olive branch, rainbow.† (source)
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Whether the admiral carried an olive branch or a sword was unclear.† (source)
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It showed an owl, Athena's sacred animal, with an olive branch on one side and a Greek inscription on the other.† (source)
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Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent—all depending on who wields it and how.† (source)
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I hold up my hands in a gesture of surrender, and then hold out my hand—an olive branch.† (source)
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Somehow the olive branch she'd extended had turned into a snake and bitten her.† (source)
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It was an olive branch.† (source)
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Coetsee's visit was an olive branch.† (source)
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Despite Rowan's recent madness, he would still extend an olive branch.† (source)
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It was shaped like a great big boat with waves lapping at the front and a dove sitting up on the mast with something in its mouth, an olive branch, we presumed, like God's promise to Noah, but Seymore said no, he believed Mr. Fred meant for it to be a flag of some sort but it was hard to chisel it upright that way; arthritis often had his right arm aching if he held it up for too long.† (source)
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