pacify

Example Sentences

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There’s a mercenary quality to the more ostentatious looks; they please crowds or pacify them for long enough to compel closer listening to the intricacies of her music.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025

A Kenyan court blocked a U.N.-backed plan to deploy the country’s officers to help pacify violence on Haiti’s streets.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2024

Local officials said police would investigate the incident, in an attempt to pacify the villagers.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2023

The celebration lasted for half an hour before they realized this was just a piece of wishful thinking someone had spread around to pacify them.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2023

Cutting my father out of our lives to pacify Abel, that was her choice.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah