How to Use placate in a Sentence

placate

verb

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• In Walz, Harris found a reliable avatar who placated most of the Democratic Party’s blocs.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024