propitiate

Example Sentences

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Especially I felt this when I made any attempt to propitiate him.

From Literature

Before he was reinstated, the Anderson School’s Faculty Executive Committee tried to propitiate the mob by announcing itself “saddened” by Klein’s “troubling conduct.”

From Washington Post

“In ancient times, contagions were attributed to the wrath of goddesses... that needed to be propitiated,” said Namboothiri in Malayalam.

From Washington Post

He suggests that they may have perceived the cave walls as a kind of membrane between their world and the spirits, and thus created their paintings as a means of propitiating them.

From The Guardian

Norman’s description of a crisis over which deity to propitiate, a crisis that began with the thirteenth and continues to the present day, is impressive in its clarity.

From New York Times