How to Use placate in a Sentence

placate

verb
Definition of placatenext
Synonyms for placatenext
  • The angry customer was not placated by the clerk's apology.
  • The administration placated protesters by agreeing to consider their demands.
  • And the draft that has emerged appears to try to placate both.
    — Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News, 22 June 2017
  • The second call was meant to placate Chinese fears about the events of Jan. 6.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The twins are then clothed, fed, and adorned to placate the spirit of the deceased.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • That’s not true — but once again, the city wants to placate adults at the expense of children.
    — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The second column seemed to placate most of those angered by the first, but not all.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 8 Nov. 2022
  • My plan was to use an assumed name but even this doesn't placate him.
    — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
  • There was no base to placate or excite in the hours of Charlottesville.
    — CBS News, 7 June 2019
  • The other women cooed and hummed to try to placate her curly-haired toddler.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Wellington tries to placate her, but Keane isn't having any of it.
    — Ethan Renner, baltimoresun.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • There, the town chief tried to placate the armed visitors with money and a prized cow.
    — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
  • But one look at the forthcoming movie’s cast should placate even the most doubtful mind.
    — Estelle Tang, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2019
  • But that did little to placate those who want the artwork removed.
    — Isabel Debre, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2019
  • Back in the car, Arce decided to change tactics and stop trying to placate the man.
    — Tricia Nadolny, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The apologies did little to placate those calling for Moore's job.
    — Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 3 June 2020
  • Maybe that deal has to be kept private, in order to placate Ukraine's leaders.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Trump, placated, agreed to the arrangement, and stood down.
    — Murray Waas, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Many of Change’s largest clients were kept in the dark or offered vague bromides to placate them while their systems were down.
    — Erika Fry, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
  • But Downtown isn't taking that risk to placate one of its staff writers.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 20 June 2018
  • To placate critics, the board had promised to tweak a pilot program 60 high schools across the country are teaching this year.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Erstwhile rock and roll rebels have cleaned up their acts to placate censors or been sidelined.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2017
  • Will a Super Bowl ring be enough to placate Ajayi for another year?
    — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Ms Patel’s trip to the seaside was an attempt to placate such critics.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Critics said the ban was long overdue and done to placate protesters.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2021
  • On the road below, guards tried to placate a group begging for drinking water.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • When Annie goes home and proposes the same routine, Steve scoffs and sighs but, to placate her, goes along with it.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 7 June 2018
  • The invitation to join the MSTF placated the concerns of postal workers for a time.
    — Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
  • In the original, a gay Taiwanese man living in New York with his boyfriend marries a Chinese woman in order to placate his parents.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • With Macron unable to dissolve parliament for at least a year from the election, concessions on immigration, security and taxes will have to be made to placate the far right and get bills adopted by the 577-seat assembly.
    — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024

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