placate

How To Use placate In A Sentence

• But either way, placater or elitist, he has headed us down an evil road by deepening a war we couldn ` t afford eight years ago when it started and certainly can ` t afford after the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq. The Student Operated Press
• This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.
• Which are deserving and important welfare issues or just the easiest to pick on and likely to placate a few voters?
• His intent is clearly not to placate his critics.
• She went to her death in the name of the selfsame god your royal father sought to placate with her blood. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
• And if your gut does start complaining, placate it with a cup of soothing mint or ginger tea or a capsule of peppermint oil.
• It placated my brother and me for hours, despite the chaos going on around us.
• Many men that "attend church" do so to pacify their wives and/or "keep up an image" or ignorantly attemp to "placate" the God they don't even know. Pew: The more often you go to church, the more likely you think torture of terrorists can be justified | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
• She even made notes on my account indicating that she'd tried to placate me, but ultimately I was inconsolable.
• That's surprising, especially since you describe him as a placater. NYT > Home Page