Example Sentences

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He mollifies a suspicious Senate subcommittee Did he or didn't he?

From Time Magazine Archive

"It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain."

From Time Magazine Archive

This mollifies him, and he politely shows us what he is doing.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry

Hoary hair mollifies minds that are fond of strife and petulant wrangling.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

My Madeline's most mirthful mood Much mollifies my mind's machine; My mournfulness' magnitude Melts—makes me merry, Madeline!

From English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. by Anonymous