pacify

How To Use pacify In A Sentence

• The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
• In spite of my efforts to pacify it the baby continued to cry / continued crying.
• It began as a way of pacifying her when she was in a rare grumpy mood, and now it's the reason we go to Target.
• You cannot win the hearts of naughty nine-year-olds by drawing cartoons that pacify their politically correct parents.
• Pacify possibly to know Tom's address.
• The idea of occupying and pacifying a country by airpower alone, or with the air force as the primary force employed, is especially attractive to airmen.
• ‘It took nearly 80 years to pacify Northern Ireland, where there are only two factions,’ he wrote.
• Instead, the company has focused on ineffective and inconvenient security procedures for the sole purpose of pacifying the traveling public.
• The secession demand is rejected and the Colonial Command moves in to pacify the resistance.
• Two thousand campesinos fought there last year under the pacifying influence of police armed with bullwhips and tear gas.