How to Use allay in a Sentence

allay

verb

• The new advertising campaign is an attempt to allay the public's concerns about the safety of the company's products.
• One way to allay our own fears is simply to look at the facts.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2022
• To her credit, Katie does not try to allay those fears.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• The agreement, at least for now, allays some of that tension.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2018
• The planning did little to allay the fears of Rachel’s natives.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2020
• Trump did little to allay those concerns in a state visit to the U.K. in June.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• DeLong didn’t have to wait long to see that happen and have his fears allayed.
  — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 23 June 2017
• The loss to Oklahoma this year didn’t help allay those fears.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• But the March jobs report showed that wage growth was mild last month, which might allay any such fears.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 6 Apr. 2024
• The best way to allay inflation’s sting: Wages must catch up.
  — Oli Turner, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2024
• Biden is trying to allay those concerns by saying unions should be a part of the way ahead.
  — Josh Boak, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• Botswana's government has tried to allay people's fears of harm to the Delta.
  — Peter Rudden, CNN, 3 May 2021
• But the good news that once allayed the fears of the doubters and hardened the resolve of the faithful has evaporated.
  — Eric Armstrong, New Republic, 12 Jan. 2018
• These words, however, seem to not have been enough to allay fears.
  — Norma Young, Quartz Africa, 14 Mar. 2020
• This can help allay some of their fears and concerns about being judged, Klein adds.
  — Brittany Risher, SELF, 18 Aug. 2018
• Our best hope to allay the dangers of Covid-19 is a vaccine, and the best case scenario is that a vaccine is still a year out.
  — Maria Streshinsky, Wired, 12 June 2020
• But this mission had brought some joy into the world and allayed some of the doubts about America.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
• All of the fears going into the competition were, for the most part, allayed.
  — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 22 June 2019
• The state acted to allay concerns by the Defense Department that the work could be done.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• He’s been gearing up for the spring, going so far to ship the A’s video of him running in spikes on the field just to allay concern about his health.
  — John Hickey, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2017
• Yet some of them had suspicions about me that my new hard hat did nothing to allay.
  — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
• Against Serbia, at least, some of those worries were allayed.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 27 June 2018
• Along the way, legislators have changed the bill to allay those concerns.
  — By Lawrence Mower, miamiherald, 26 Feb. 2018
• To allay concerns, the Corps analyzed nine past sweeps of the area that includes Lalamilo.
  — Rob Perez, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
• Most parents add to that with tales about the lives and activities of Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy, or to allay fears.
  — Alan Kazdin, Time, 19 Oct. 2017
• Xi tried to allay those concerns by referring to the country’s long-term growth prospects.
  — Tom Hancock, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2022
• All these worries would be allayed if TikTok turns out to be a passing fad.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• And that means Alsobrooks is spending a lot of time trying to allay fears.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2020
• According to Robinson, that wasn’t good enough to allay the longer-term worries of parents, who say the tension at the school has only increased and that this wasn’t the first fight of the school year, only the worst one.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
• There are some financial backstops that can help allay such displacement costs.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 2 Feb. 2025