Appease

//əˈpiːz//

"Appease" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Management tried to appease labor by offering them a bonus.

Only a sincere apology will appease my anger.

Don't always try to appease women! They know they aren't generally good with technicalities.

Why do you always try to appease women? Do you feel guilty?

Being full is: completely satisfying the desire to appease your hunger.

Ravenswood pleaded, apologised, and even kneeled, to appease her displeasure.

In like manner he commanded the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: Speak ye the same words to Esau, when ye find him. And ye shall add: Thy servant Jacob himself also followeth after us; for he said: I will appease him with the presents that go before, and afterwards I will see him, perhaps he will be gracious to me.

The Algerian government needs to launch major reforms to appease the masses.

The Algerian government is seeking to appease the masses.

Tom likes to complain in order to appease his envious neighbors.

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to appease the tumult of the ocean

'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has suggested climate change is “probably doing good” in a speech in London in which he likened policies to combat it to “primitive people once killing goats to appease the volcano gods” .

It's been slowly hacked back, amid fears of escalating costs, by politicians who have also increased those costs by adding expensive structures such as tunnels to appease opponents.

They appeased the angry gods with burnt offerings.

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