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.
• All of the fears going into the competition were, for the most part, allayed.
  — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 22 June 2019
• Bond yields rose for the second straight day, allaying traders’ concerns following a steep drop in long-term yields over the past week.
  — Alex Veiga, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
• Victory in the Austin sprint race allayed some of Verstappen’s fears.
  — Luke Smith, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
• Genghis Khan helped allay this sense of precariousness.
  — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 21 June 2019
• Ito said more talks with market workers and businesses are needed to allay worries and convince them the move was the best option.
  — Yuri Kageyama, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Friday's strong jobs report helped allay fears that the combination of trade wars and weakness overseas would drag the U.S. into a recession.
  — Karl W. Smith, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
• Jimmy Butler, meanwhile, has posted enough social-media workout video to seemingly allay concern about the knee issue that kept him out of the playoffs.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2024
• Wondering: My theory is that parents get involved to allay their own anxiety about these relationships.
  — Ask Amy, oregonlive.com, 20 June 2019
• Dear Wondering: My theory is that parents get involved to allay their own anxiety about these relationships.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 20 June 2019
• 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 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
• 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
• These words, however, seem to not have been enough to allay fears.
  — Norma Young, Quartz Africa, 14 Mar. 2020
• 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
• The state acted to allay concerns by the Defense Department that the work could be done.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Yet some of them had suspicions about me that my new hard hat did nothing to allay.
  — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
• To allay concerns, the Corps analyzed nine past sweeps of the area that includes Lalamilo.
  — Rob Perez, ProPublica, 26 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Crews worked around the clock and wrapped up ahead of schedule, allaying fears the critical highway would be closed for many weeks.
  — Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2023
• The bank’s findings could also help allay fears over credit cards.
  — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 26 July 2022
• The Indiegogo campaign was designed to allay those doubts.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024