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.
• Your daughter doesn't need to remodel a room in her home to appease your daughter-in-law.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
• Known as people pleasing, fawning involves abandoning your own needs to appease and avoid conflict.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• There was one more sobering warning from his prepared statement, one set against the backdrop of those who continue to defend or appease Trump in his lies about who won the election.
  — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2022
• The amenity value of working remotely—staying in pajamas, rolling out of bed right in time to clock in—is unlikely to appease workers angry about their wage for much longer.
  — Fortune, 8 July 2022
• The pledge is the latest among a series of moves by Chinese authorities to appease a homebuyer revolt nationwide.
  — Laura He, CNN, 22 July 2022
• These actions, though shaped by the NRA in the 1990s, were not carried out solely to appease the organization.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 30 May 2022
• Nomi was terrified, frozen, and pretended to appease Defendant Elfman.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 11 July 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

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024