How to Use mollify in a Sentence

mollify

verb

• The landlord fixed the heat, but the tenants still were not mollified.
• All attempts to mollify the extremists have failed.
• He tried to mollify his critics with an apology.
• But these steps did not mollify the rage on the streets.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• Meanwhile, the White House had work of its own to mollify rank-and-file Democrats.
  — Stephen Groves, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• The court’s initial step on ethics, in the spring, did not mollify critics.
  — Mark Sherman, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2023
• The court's initial step on ethics, in the spring, also did not mollify critics.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
• The court’s initial step on ethics, in the spring, also did not mollify critics.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
• The reason the city commissioned the report was to mollify critics of the police.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2020
• But this is, at best, a half-hearted attempt to mollify fears about the DUP’s views on queer people and abortion.
  — Léa Rose Emery, Teen Vogue, 28 June 2017
• Just grab a bottle of wine from your fridge and mollify them with alcohol.
  — Emily Young, sacbee, 26 Sep. 2017
• The presence of Lawrence Guy (who has been in and out of the lineup all year because of health issues) should help mollify Barmore’s loss.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• At one point, Bottcher was trying to mollify the neighborhood with the prospect of a Trader Joe’s in the Lirio’s retail space.
  — Curbed, 19 Oct. 2022
• Nor is he mollified by the idea of moving everyone to a nearby lot.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• Joe Biden has refused to do so purely out of the wish to mollify his domestic critics on the left flank of his party.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2024
• That has not mollified critics who view it as another black mark on her record.
  — Chris Megerian, latimes.com, 9 May 2018
• The order is limited in scope, and some critics of ICE appear to be mollified.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• Several members are keen to mollify it, while a few would prefer to be tough.
  — The Economist, 18 June 2020
• Even the State Department has done little to mollify Merkel.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• But the move may have been an attempt to mollify Trump or ward off any disruptive comments from him in London.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2019
• The Prime Minister agreed to lift fuel price caps, increase taxes on the wealthy and slash the budget deficit in order to mollify the lender-of-last-resort.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 16 June 2022
• The goal: mollify the media before everyone moves onto the big games.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 19 Nov. 2022
• So then the question becomes whether Spotify can find the right price to keep him happy and mollify investors.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
• Even a temporary deal to suspend the debt limit for a short period might not be enough to mollify the ratings firms.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• They are not mollified by a plan to impose a national carbon price.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• By June, the legislation had been weakened to the point that many ambivalent Democrats were mollified.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2016
• Strange was endorsed by Trump in a surprising move meant to mollify McConnell.
  — Garrett Haake, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2017
• Whether these changes will be enough to mollify the concerns of privacy experts, lawmakers and the FTC, is anyone's guess.
  — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
• European leasing companies have faced a similar predicament, forcing Tesla to offer unofficial discounts to mollify them.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 7 Aug. 2024
• Eight years later, Lai rejected his predecessor’s mollifying language in his inaugural speech.
  — Bonnie S. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024