pacify

Example Sentences

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"They didn't like it and that's going to be our goal, to pacify the crowd."

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

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

It starts with Lamar rapping quickly but calmly over a smooth-jazz backdrop, taunting, “I make music that electrify ’em, you make music that pacify ’em.”

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

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

When someone falls sick, a shaman can contact the spirit that caused the sickness and try to pacify it or scare it away.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari