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Mollify
"Mollify" in a Sentence (18 examples)
You won’t mollify him with that explanation.
Mary tried to mollify Tom by singing him a lullaby.
Tom's explanation didn't mollify Mary.
Her calm explanation helped mollify their concerns.
mollify someone’s anger
attempt to mollify
mollify criticism
Hovv impetrable hee vvas in mollyfying the adamantineſt tiranny of mankinde, […]
All that charity can do where injustice exists is here and there to somewhat mollify the effects of injustice.
The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification.
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He tried to mollify the angry customer.
Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.
There were no honeyed words from Dr. Beeching to mollify Scottish feeling on rail service closures during his one-day visit in May.
But these answers did not mollify Grassley. Specifically, he objected to Abedin’s becoming an S.G.E., because he believed she provided no irreplaceable expertise and therefore her designation as one had violated Congress’s intent when it created the program, in 1962.
Earlier this year, amid the challenge to the public charge rule arising from the Covid-19 virus, Chief Justice John Roberts took the lead against immigrant interests yet mollified liberals poised to dissent publicly, CNN’s Joan Biskupic reported this week.
Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire.
By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire […]
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