How to Use appeasement in a Sentence

appeasement

noun

• That appeasement clearly failed, as Putin invaded Ukraine on their watch five years later.
  — Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• And here's where the talk of appeasement becomes cloudy.
  — SI.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• History may look back on this as a failure of nerve equal to the appeasement of the 1930s.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
• Now is not the time for appeasement of an agenda that attacks facts.
  — Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 18 May 2018
• The price of appeasement, as history has taught us, is too steep.
  — Madeline Roache, Time, 12 Nov. 2019
• The best that such companies can hope for is short-term appeasement.
  — Andrew V. Abela, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2020
• In the Cold War, Democrats were often portrayed as the party of appeasement to Moscow.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
• Two years later, in a speech from Verdun, France, the former King called for appeasement.
  — Town & Country, 18 Nov. 2022
• Biden’s policy appeasement, on the other hand, has been a 15-year project.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 22 Feb. 2022
• Pacifism and appeasement in the short term often postpone war and are achieved at little cost.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 3 Oct. 2017
• Now, contrast that disaster that utter appeasement to what Trump has done in the 18 months.
  — Fox News, 18 July 2018
• Biden’s appeasement of Iran and his ridiculous pressures on Israel are a large part of his legacy.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 July 2024
• During the later stages of the movement, a mustached man opened himself up to charges of white appeasement and Uncle Tom-ism.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2020
• Europe should stand fast with the U.S. Wishful thinking and appeasement will not keep the Continent safe.
  — Danny Danon, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
• David Davis referred to appeasement before the second world war.
  — Matthew Sweet, The Economist, 27 Dec. 2020
• At a row of chairs nearby, massages were being sold—decadent appeasement for the people.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• This is all reminiscent of the appeasement that produced the 1938 Munich Pact.
  — Bernard-Henri Lévy, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
• Some lawmakers who have long called for a tougher stance on China criticized the visit as a form of appeasement.
  — The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023
• If Zelensky had made the deal before the invasion, that would be appeasement.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 8 Mar. 2022
• Ukraine’s struggle cannot be concluded with the appeasement of Russia.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• Whatever its merits, the push for a Civilian Climate Corps is a product of that appeasement process.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 22 July 2021
• All of this is -- right now, this appeasement is this Georgia Senate runoff strategy.
  — NBC News, 15 Nov. 2020
• The problem with appeasement, of course, was that Hitler’s goals were not limited to an orderly revision of the Treaty of Versailles.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Still, such appeasement was not enough: After the book wasn’t banned outright, Jamestown voters defunded the library in 2022.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• Now, four years later, trying again with a few tweaks of appeasement, Macron doesn’t seem very likely to escape a much different fate.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• They were frustrated with the U.K.'s policy of appeasement toward Hitler, and thought that the Communists might be the only ones able to defeat the fascists.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 17 Nov. 2019
• McCarthy is modern proof that appeasement doesn’t work.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• Progress, as McCarthy defined it, looked an awful lot like appeasement.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
• There is no avoiding the consequences of appeasement if China swallows it up.
  — Bing West, National Review, 15 Apr. 2023
• And like several others, Vassar took the appeasement route.
  — Megan Tallmer, New York Daily News, 29 May 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024