How To Use Assuage In A Sentence

It spreads rapidly, becomes attached to new objects, and burns with the pain of unassuaged longing.
The pattern of eating to assuage fear and anxiety was established for life. Times, Sunday Times
But thank you for acknowledging that the principle accomplishment of carbon credits is the assuagement of guilt.
There is still something almost mythical about a piece of metal that can inspire and assuage all the bitterness of political posturing and stray dog culls. Times, Sunday Times
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Politicians sought to assuage those feelings with a range of new anti-crime measures.
Seeking to assuage fears that Argos could be losing ground to rivals, Mr. Duddy said the store had maintained its market share in consumer electronics and the slump in demand was industrywide. Retailers Slump as Argos Sales Plummet
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
A string of unexpected Olympic successes - Greece has picked up two gold medals and a bronze so far - has helped to assuage national pride.
It is said that they are in flight from an insupportable nervous strain, from which they find temporary assuagement only in sleep.
And that is a hunger that can probably never be assuaged.
The pattern of eating to assuage fear and anxiety was established for life. Times, Sunday Times
The pictures were then sent to the distraught mother, helping to calm her and assuage her habit of self-harm. Times, Sunday Times
No inquiry can bring them back, but this one was at least an opportunity to answer vital questions and assuage grief with clarity. Times, Sunday Times
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
I myself incline to the minority view that science alone cannot assuage our craving for human contact.
I am having trouble structuring an argument which assuages my children's disappointment on this one.
First came the appetizers in form of thin slices of salami and of a peculiar Mexican sausage, so extremely hot with chili pepino as to immediately call for a drink of claret to assuage the burning. Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.
But recent happenings assuaged most feelings of guilt.
Ill health removed the pleasures of dissipation for him, and there was nothing to assuage his guilt and regret.
From what regulators have already gathered from Microsoft's latest assuagement, technical support isn't quite what they had in mind. People To Watch: March 27-31The Week Ahead: March 27-31
Philanthropy often has merely abstract rewards for the giver: that warm empathetic feeling; an assuagement of theoretical guilt; perhaps even an aggrandized sense of self, as the largesse is doled out. Billionaire Soros To Help Fight Urban Drug Abuse
To an extent, helping others assuaged the pain each woman felt.
In Teniers's pictures at Dulwich, animals satisfy appetites more innocent than those assuaged in Brouwer's pot-houses.
We used to trespass into a field and sit eating raw Brussels sprouts or rhubarb to assuage our hunger. Times, Sunday Times
State media reported that a Guo bought 6.5 tons of salt in Wuhan on March 17, only to see prices collapse three days later after repeated warnings from government officials that there was no salt shortage and that consuming iodized salt could not assuage radiation sickness, of which there was no threat. Great Speculations: Why China Is So Bubble-Friendly
The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
Life imprisonment will seem to many a mild sentence, and will do little to assuage years of grief. Times, Sunday Times
Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome. The Romance of the Forest
For even if those who raped and killed his family could be brought to trial, as Ngabu so desperately wants, no such grief could be assuaged or horror undone. The Trial of Thomas Lubanga
The food industry has tried to assuage health concerns by offering 'low-fat' options, rather as tobacco firms offered 'low-tar' cigarettes. Times, Sunday Times
His dark hair and even darker beard do nothing to assuage her discomfort.
C Major Variation V and the concluding siciliana will not assuage the mortal coil that surrounds this fateful work which Beethoven, too, found powerfully compelling. Audiophile Audition Headlines
Ha face was pale, her eyes dark-rimmed, and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun's silly chatter.
The pattern of eating to assuage fear and anxiety was established for life. Times, Sunday Times
This is because one of the purposes of the criminal law is to assuage the feelings of the victims and their friends and relations.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The subsequent amendments were being proposed to assuage the feelings of industry.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The medicine is used to assuage pain.
What poor hosts we have become if we do not offer to assuage her hunger, for surely she must be famished by now.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Furies > (In later accounts, Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto, three goddesses who guard the gates of hell; in earlier accounts, they are avenging deities, of indeterminate number, sent from hell to punish wrongdoers) aslake > assuage; cool The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The high life in London did not entirely assuage the pain of politics. Times, Sunday Times
To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.
Once the most serious hunger pangs were assuaged, Nicholas remembered his manners and his curiosity.
I was trying to assuage my guilt. The Sun
So I think people that are urging war crime trials ought to spend more time trying to assuage worries, e.g. that war crime trials would be seen as illegitimate, would provoke a nationalistic backlash, would start a civil war, or something along those lines, instead of just shouting “principals” and “the law ought to apply to the powerful just as much as the not-powerful” both of which I agree with. pseudonymous in nc Says: Matthew Yglesias » Requests We Can Believe In
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Why should we be forced to pay million-pound wages to assuage the egos of these egomaniacs, we cry?
The best man said nothing to assuage the ensuing lack of confidence, nor did Sandra, the bride's friend from our table, who got up and mumbled a few incoherencies about nightclubs and alcohol.
Or assuage the guilt for abandoning that traditional ideal.
This time Google is going out of its way to assuage the fears of potential partners and pay the necessary fealties. Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
He will assuage his guilt about not seeing them very often with expensive birthday presents. Times, Sunday Times
They're taking the high ground to assuage their feelings of guilt. Times, Sunday Times
Christine reverts back to her old habits - snorting cocaine and popping pills - in an effort to assuage her horrible tragedy.
And since the example was set on high and citizens mysteriously but constantly take the princes 'behavior as the standard for their own, it's the guarantee of a feverish, unassuaged, confrontational society where resentment and hatred will rapidly become the last ties of the social contract. Bernard-Henri Lévy: Nicolas Sarkozy's Three Errors
Mighty Aphrodite is a psychotic Bush apologist who comes here to assuage his own personal pain at being not just unloved, but unliked by most people. Think Progress » VIDEO: Rumsfeld Called Out On Lies About WMD
My faith in Henry James notwithstanding (recall the Jamesian dictum to allow the writer his/her donnée and criticize only what is made of it), that reader's comment lingered (obviously!), and its impact wasn't fully assuaged even when other, equally wise authority figures told me otherwise. Practicing Writing
The advisors hand-hold customers through the entire home process, from picking the floor plan to arranging the mortgage to taking as many calls as necessary to assuage fears.
In the former, Lucinda asks for fulfillment, enlightenment, and the unnameable assuagement sought by all. Joseph Smigelski: Lucinda Williams: She Breaks My Heart
Tensions grew as the protesters, unassuaged by Lee's promise to step down after a party congress in September, attacked the cars of arriving KMT officials.
I felt that hunger is such a force for good in that sense - hunger and recognising the need to assuage that hunger. Times, Sunday Times
Its writers were not able to assuage our memory of the minstrel with black characters who, without a full range of emotion, were no more than highly skilled laborers.
Those concerns, however, may have been assuaged this week after President Barack Obama announced the new investigative unit. Hope Is Rising for Mortgage Accord
They may have over-eaten, in their desperation to assuage their hunger, or drunk themselves silly.
They received the faint answer of ‘yes’ and their fears were assuaged; if only for a moment.
It merely earned him some much-needed Brownie points and assuaged the general grief and shock of a nation, understandably numbed by the slaughter of innocent children.
He wanted to assuage her desperation as keenly, almost, as he wanted to atone to Nuala for the misfortune which had befallen her. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Originals could be collected to enhance Australian identity or assuage colonial guilt. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps, he is seeking revenge, or perhaps, he is simply looking to assuage the pain.
He will assuage his guilt about not seeing them very often with expensive birthday presents. Times, Sunday Times
I was trying to assuage my guilt. The Sun
Either you have not gone bed to yet, and you need something to assuage your fevered brow, or you are waking up and you need something to assuage your fevered brow.
Providence may, indeed, sunder forever those dearest to each other, and the stricken soul accepts the blow as the righteous discipline of a Higher Power; but when the bereavement is the arbitrary dictate of human will, there are no such consolations to sanctify grief and assuage agony. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
But his language has a cracked and schizoid relation to reality and cannot assuage the sense of existential dread that haunts his world.
However, my task is to pursue the best interests of the child and not assuage parental feelings.
It probably assuages some people suffering from extreme paranoia but we must not lose sight of the fact that prevention is always a far better and more effective course of action than control. Global Voices in English » Southeast Asia: Reactions to the H1N1 virus
Ha face was pale, her eyes dark-rimmed, and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun's silly chatter.
Even Minna in misfortune would have allowed herself to be persuaded either to increase or to assuage the misfortune of her friend through herself. Act V. Scene IX
His worst fears assuaged, Cazaril abandoned his futile attempt at invisibility, and nerved himself to ask Lady Betriz for one roundel. THE CURSE OF CHALION
This, however, it was easy for him to assuage, after a fashion, for the long, gray, unnourishing mosses were abundant. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
The parents have to work harder and longer to earn money to assuage their guilt. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the condolence letters that followed offered suggestions about the best way to assuage my grief. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, and he assuaged whatever thirst he had with, I suppose, the soft drink or the orange juice.
No inquiry can bring them back, but this one was at least an opportunity to answer vital questions and assuage grief with clarity. Times, Sunday Times
To assuage those concerns, we have looked hard to see if we have missed the real story. American Grace
An even less appetizing quality of the new privileged is their palpable and apparently unassuageable envy.
She assuaged his sorrow with gentle words.
Ha face was pale, her eyes dark-rimmed, and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun's silly chatter.
But the second desire was not so easily assuaged.
It is a decidedly loving look that Taylor takes, which may not assuage the sensibilities of a supposedly more enlightened age.
I felt that hunger is such a force for good in that sense - hunger and recognising the need to assuage that hunger. Times, Sunday Times
Looking at my field guide did not assuage my fears.
In buying their children accommodations to assuage their own anxiety, parents are actually locking their kids into fragility.
I am unassuaged in my being pissed at George for making me wait far, far, too long for these books. In Defense of George R. R. Martin - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games
Each mouthful is so poignant, however, that our appetite, if not assuaged, is at least abashed.
Nothing you do will assuage the misery of your lonely empty life. Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
His need for approval unassuaged by the giant success of "" Titanic, '' Cameron wrote a diatribe in the March 28 Los Angeles Times attacking its movie critic, Kenneth Turan. The Court Of King Jim
Snacks designed to boost your mood, rather than to assuage your appetite, will be everywhere on sale.
Not even the delight of passing his driving test or having more time to indulge his devotion to Real Madrid could assuage the inner torment of self-doubt.
Such videos are very popular as they help assuage the guilt feelings of parents over their failure to control the TV in the first place.
Originals could be collected to enhance Australian identity or assuage colonial guilt. Times, Sunday Times
Democratic processes can do nothing to assuage the homicidal needs of barbarian madmen.
Life imprisonment will seem to many a mild sentence, and will do little to assuage years of grief. Times, Sunday Times
This craving to nail down transient experience is unassuageable, and as basic to us as the self-pitying sorrow for our own mortality, and just as invariably doomed to disappointment.
It seems as though dance helped to assuage the feelings of loss associated with leaving Ireland.
The parents have to work harder and longer to earn money to assuage their guilt. Times, Sunday Times
assuaged" -- a favourite word with Mr. Broad -- if he had believed in those "remedies. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane
Hero to sale for distent shores, there asisted by that balm time and change, there assuage his grefe. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
That would assuage his guilt. Times, Sunday Times
I'm going to jam every bit of everything offered into my greedy maw until my curiosity is assuaged.
Trying to assuage the ruffled feelings of the masses by conducting such events in situations of necessity may be fine.
The meal would have been stolen immediately had not the dogs' hunger been assuaged.
They're taking the high ground to assuage their feelings of guilt. Times, Sunday Times
We should not pretend that we have simply to assuage public outrage. Times, Sunday Times
Though we were all a little concerned about a sharp beak coming at us full throttle, Mr. Burdett assuaged our fears. A Whole Other Ball Game
It is no mere reform of legislation, whilst the furious passions and evil propensities of the human heart, in which it had its origin, are still unassuaged. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Paris insisted right after the Fukushima accident that French plants were safe, but wanted inspections as a precautionary measure to assuage any fears in the French population. France to Check Its Nuclear Plants
Despite a recent EU agreement to help assuage the euro-zone debt crisis, bond market participants fear it may flare again at any time. Treasurys Fall, But Not So Hard
But that first sweet, awkward kiss offered of her own volition had wiped everything from his mind but the assuagement of his own need. The Count's Blackmail Bargain
But that is unlikely to assuage fear of an external threat. Times, Sunday Times
When Karen awakes, she finds her loneliness unassuaged.
Hunger was easily assuaged by chips, but after a while, I developed a taste for more illicit pleasures.
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I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and unassuaged. Archive 2004-02-01
I wonder whether an unassuageable grief doesn't consume Danticat when she's writing.
Our hunger was rapidly assuaged, and by the time we pushed our plates away, we were both full.
The pictures were then sent to the distraught mother, helping to calm her and assuage her habit of self-harm. Times, Sunday Times
I felt that hunger is such a force for good in that sense - hunger and recognising the need to assuage that hunger. Times, Sunday Times
If your first thought on seeing one-of-a-kind lamps is "Interesting, but is it so amateurishly wired it will conflagrate, setting my home afire, destroying all my belongings, including my irreplaceable collection of back issues of the New York Times Home section?" then your fears will be assuaged by the knowledge that a creator of these particular lamps, Tom Blake, left, is a licensed New York City electrician who has worked on the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings. Post-gazette.com - News
And yet even as I thought it, I ached elsewhere, with the soul-deep need of an anguissette that no kindness, no compassion could assuage. Kushiel's Avatar
And if it comes as any assuagement I used to say “For all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents & purposes.” KN | Kitsune Noir » Monopoly Gets A New Look
The point is, hunger and the desire to assuage it had little, if anything, to do with honoring or dishonoring God on the Sabbath.
I kept apologizing to Chris the day before the party as we worked nonstop to get everything ready, but he was beyond assuagement. Falling Apart in One Piece
Nothing would assuage the pain of her deprivation.
Shunned by the industry, their unassuageable need to communicate drives them to make and market their recordings.
And I don't see anywhere that our President thanked president nut-case in NKorea ... sending Bubba was enough to assuage the super-ego to do what he knew he'd have to do all along. Obama applauds release of freed American journalists
Faramir dies, Boromir lives with his guilt unassuaged or not, I can see excellent dramatic potential either way The Real Fantastic Stuff, an essay by Richard K. Morgan - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games
And in addressing that, the hunger is assuaged.
For some reason it's comforting to be able to really dislike him; it assuages the guilty feelings our envy produces.
The pattern of eating to assuage fear and anxiety was established for life. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the condolence letters that followed offered suggestions about the best way to assuage my grief. Times, Sunday Times
Given the outrage which the discovery that a significant proportion of our MPs were living high on the hog at public expense caused, let us think a moment how we might to our eternal advantage deflect the outrage of our citizens (which, given the continuing lack of contrition of most MPs about their larcenies, is as yet unassuaged) from those undoubted swine onto the State as a whole. Let Us Destroy The Big State
I don't understand what's happened to people, and knowing full well that this climate of political rancor is nothing new in our young democracy does nothing to assuage the absolute screaming terror that what we see in the now is only a preview of what my kids will face in the future. R_urell: I think it possible, perhaps even inevit
Talking to her helped to assuage my guilt.
It helps exonerate us, assuages our panic and provides a focus for our disdain and hate.
The pictures were then sent to the distraught mother, helping to calm her and assuage her habit of self-harm. Times, Sunday Times
Anyway, I'll assuage my frustration by posting my comment here.
And my fears weren't particularly assuaged when I arrived at the Holiday Inn-like structure an hour and $45 later and had to pass through an IRT-like subway turnstile, after paying a $35 admission fee. 'John Travolta Was Here'
How else is he supposed to assuage England's desperate hunger for success if he cannot even get players together for a few days?
Jacques Chirac thought he would take a tough stance on crime during this election campaign to assuage voters' fears and anxieties.
The move would be to "assuage" DT holders who are "disenchanted" with the performance of the German telco's stock, the Journal says. Abnormal Returns Now
For him, people existed only for one purpose: to assuage his unquenchable thirst for self-validation and control.
That would assuage his guilt. Times, Sunday Times
We used to trespass into a field and sit eating raw Brussels sprouts or rhubarb to assuage our hunger. Times, Sunday Times
Sufficiently assuaged, a beaming Anita scuttled off.
They're taking the high ground to assuage their feelings of guilt. Times, Sunday Times
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
They're taking the high ground to assuage their feelings of guilt. Times, Sunday Times
That would assuage his guilt. Times, Sunday Times
A mythology of looming threats has created an insatiable appetite for security, which then has to be assuaged through totemic gestures.
Originals could be collected to enhance Australian identity or assuage colonial guilt. Times, Sunday Times
The announcement appeared designed to assuage concerns at home and abroad that the army intends to retain its stranglehold on power indefinitely. Times, Sunday Times
He will assuage his guilt about not seeing them very often with expensive birthday presents. Times, Sunday Times
Or you can assuage your sweet tooth with a steadier stream of lower-calorie sweets (such as Tootsie Pops), again making sure you cut back on other calories on those days. Haunted by Halloween candy?
He speedily succors us with the aid of consolation, assuages the rising pangs of temptations, and calms with inward peace the emotions of the thoughts which rise up against Him.
Snacks designed to boost your mood, rather than to assuage your appetite, will be everywhere on sale.
The men's lingering, finally unassuageable sadness is brought out by the insidious consonances. The Times Literary Supplement
No inquiry can bring them back, but this one was at least an opportunity to answer vital questions and assuage grief with clarity. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes numbers invoke or ask for favors; other times they assuage hurt feelings in the hope of preventing malign events. A Museum of Numbers
After all, there are all those new voters whose expectations will have to be assuaged if he is to be re-elected. Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears A Halo
The high life in London did not entirely assuage the pain of politics. Times, Sunday Times
As time went on she grew more and more jealous of him, and more and more certain that, if only she could know what had happened, she would get some ease to her tormented heart and some assuagement of her perfectly natural curiosity.
And thank you, posters, who "assuaged" my outrage over this maneuver on the part of the anti-gay. Gay/Lesbian Forum
The European Central Bank's efforts in December to extend three-year, low-cost loans to banks assuaged market fears about a banking crisis, laying a foundation for the rally in riskier assets. Too Late to Jump Aboard?
Upcoming second-quarter results may do little to assuage such fears. Will Generous Pay on the Street Hit a Wall?
As part of the shift to unadorned capitalist relations, efforts appear to be underway to revive various forms of religion to help assuage social discontent.
We should not pretend that we have simply to assuage public outrage. Times, Sunday Times
When we fall in love we imagine we have found an ultimate assuagement of loneliness.
To assuage worries that MPs are being unduly influenced by these posh trips, House of Commons rules require all members to come clean about any trips they take that aren't paid for by taxpayers and list them in a public registry.
In May the lossmaking company raised 17m in a rights issue to assuage concerns it might run out of cash. Times, Sunday Times
But, not a drop of empyrean manna falls on my parched lips to assuage the thirst of aeons.
The high life in London did not entirely assuage the pain of politics. Times, Sunday Times
The decision to look outside the bank for a chief executive is likely to assuage some critics of Barclays in the City.
Life imprisonment will seem to many a mild sentence, and will do little to assuage years of grief. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, there was on the whole no great tension between accepting basic Christian formularies and utilizing a whole set of other devices to manage nature and assuage anxiety.
If these are straight balls, I'd hate to see your googlies, Grant replied in one of several lapses into irritation which neither Jay's nor Leveson instinctive deference to his celeb status could wholly assuage. Leveson inquiry: Hugh Grant delivers damning testimony
Likewise a vague mention of a 'truth and reconciliation commission' for Balochistan will not in the short-term defuse the situation unless practical and tangible confidence-building measures are taken to assuage the angry Baloch. New Pakistani Govt Sells Tribal Areas To Terrorists
And I don't see anywhere that our President thanked president nut-case in NKorea ... sending Bubba was enough to assuage the super-ego to do what he knew he'd have to do all along. Obama applauds release of freed American journalists
I was trying to assuage my guilt. The Sun
Many of the condolence letters that followed offered suggestions about the best way to assuage my grief. Times, Sunday Times
With my hunger assuaged, the afternoon is a heavy time. I turn up the volume on the radio, walk around the store, try to keep myself awake.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

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