propitiate

Example Sentences

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So when an epidemic gets underway, we don’t waste time on sacrifices to propitiate angry gods or fretting about deadly miasmas seeping in with the night air.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2020

I suspect that Oskar probably still believes that it was just something in my nature: that somebody needed to be sacrificed on the altar on the way to propitiate whatever, and that that was him.

From Slate • Jun. 28, 2016

Was it just to tell the date or propitiate some mountain deity?

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013

Mr. Talbott, who won the first Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award for a new play with “The Submission,” understands the conflicting urges to propitiate and attack that spring from the insecurities of a life in the theater.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2011

Roger’s daemon anxiously wagged her terrier tail to propitiate him.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman