How to Use appease in a Sentence

appease

verb

• We had no way to appease our hunger.
• They made sacrifices to appease the gods.
• His critics were not appeased by this last speech.
• They appeased the dictator by accepting his demands in an effort to avoid war.
• To appease the players who complained, city leaders initially planned to build one full court and a half court across the street on a parking lot.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• The sleek black-and-white design looks grown-up enough to appease your 13-going-on-30 middle schooler.
  — Janine Annett, WSJ, 29 July 2021
• Around 5,000 animals were killed in the inaugural games—a bid to appease a public angry about inequality.
  — Julia Buckley, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2021
• To salvage a season already slipping away in Week 3, avoid his unceremonious ouster and appease a furious fan base, Napier had to change.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2024
• And the French farmers don’t seem in the mood to be appeased.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• Why won’t the county just turn over the routers to appease Trump?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 July 2021
• That need to appease is gone now, and not just on the climate.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• Will that be long enough to appease the new marathon board?
  — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• The fit suited varying heights and the style appeased a range of ages.
  — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• Their first joint project was shelved to appease their son.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• No more glass-is-half-full sound bites to appease anyone.
  — J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2019
• Almost all changes in the race over the past decades have come in an effort to appease those sponsors and fans.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2018
• So Michael Saltzman did a rewrite to try and appease them.
  — Will Harris, HWD, 4 May 2018
• But Crawford couldn’t appease the remainder of the crowd.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2017
• And most any effort to appease one side is going to come at the expense of the other.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• The truth is what will shape your life from now on, so even the worst news is better than being appeased.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 1 May 2017
• Critics still weren’t appeased, so Gay tried a third time.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• This may be a little white lie; however, it’s made to appease your boss and HR, and help keep the peace.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• In the meantime, the district has taken steps to appease its critics.
  — Rosanna Xia, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
• What Trump will say to appease them on Wednesday is anyone’s guess.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 Jan. 2017
• So now the Heat have to alter their most-effective style in order to appease some sort of set of judges?
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
• Those countries are going to have a tough time pulling off a plan that appeases Iran.
  — Melissa Etehad, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• So far, Johnson has tried to appease both camps — with mixed results.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
• There are quotas to be met and angry customers to appease.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• Serve platters with blue cheese dip or make a variety of wings to appease the crowd.
  — Samantha Lande, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2024
• Ganja & Hess centers on an anthropologist who turns vampire after being stabbed with a cursed dagger, but Gunn was not interested in appeasing the capitalist appetite for another blaxploitation piece in the early ’70s.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Jan 2025