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How to use appease in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word appease? Here are some examples.

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She knew it was only a nightmare, but somehow that didn't appease the terror she felt.
He denied that the death of Christ was necessary to satisfy divine justice and appease God's wrath.
The move was obviously a manoeuvre intended to appease and, perhaps, deceive disaffected members who clamoured for fresh leadership of the party.
Wilhemina is a rising surgeon who begrudgingly meets and greets inept blind dates to appease her overbearing mother.
The bridge appears to have been built to appease a micro minority of day-tripping bargees who found the previous bridge too stiff to open.
What is totally lacking is any vestigial sense of wishing to appease the people responsible for these outrages.
Media pundits have suggested it was a sop to appease the right wing in the cabinet.
Or maybe they are just keeping the issue ticking along in order to appease their supporters.
However, to appease smokers, ashtrays are to be erected outside the foyer where people will be able to smoke at their pleasure.
The statement did not appease former residents who heckled the sister from the public gallery.
To appease the vocal opposition to the privatisation threat, the government tightened the provisions against extra billing and queue jumping.
It won't really appease either the die-hard mossbacks or the fanatic up-to-the-minutes.
The head surgeon jokes bluffly, and a few people chuff or make the facsimile of laughter, to appease him.
Threesomes are very common in gay relationships, often though they are used as a way to appease a partner who wants to sleep around.
The girl who lapsed into a fit, repeatedly called on a woman by name to come and appease the ghosts she said were strangling her.
The dress flowed over her slender body wonderfully and Christy knew that this would appease Charles.
Hurtig said parents don't want to see dollars taken away from the school's other programs to appease institute number crunchers.
An elderly passenger became increasingly agitated, and neither his wife nor other passengers and cabin crew could appease him.
Curious and willing, Oedipus asks how he can do this and appease the Eumenides, whose sacred grove he violated after first entering Colonus.
That is holding back socialist revolutions to appease a more conservative capitalist element.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Perhaps they were satisfied to appease their madness with pillage and fire.
However, Johnson's attempt to appease him was a curious specimen of his magniloquence.
This incautious speech by no means tended to appease the ferocity of the crowd.
A cold leg of chicken, a Swiss cheese sandwich, a piece of apple pie and a bottle of milk would appease hunger when hunger came.
I cannot, even to appease your anger, deny this morning what I said last night.
No matter how big or hungry your family, you can always appease them with pizza.
You may take ham to appease hunger, or you may take it to prevent the obtrusion of that vulgar sensation.
I don't mind smoke,' she said mendaciously, trying to appease the defiler of the air with a little smile.
Hercules and Mars they appease with beasts usually allowed for sacrifice.
In February, therefore, Gustavus wrote a letter to appease the people.
But how, Cebes, and by what arguments, shall we appease this Cadmus?
The lamplighter tried to appease her, but she shut the door in his face.
We were always moved to appease him with the stub before the cigar was half gone, because he looked so viciously anxious.
Hence the liberality in gift distribution was an attempt to appease them.
When the men hang loose in air, their wives offer prayers to God Shiva to appease him.
The Colemak keyboard layout is meant to appease those who are uncomfortable with the QWERTY layout but don't feel like adopting a whole new layout.
It has been the prudent policy of Congress to appease this controversy, by prevailing upon the States to make cessions to the United States for the benefit of the whole.
If we ran after her and tried to appease her, it did no good.
He decried the ruling elite for being toady of the USA and added that this is why important national issues are shelved only to appease the American masters.
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