How to Use appease in a Sentence

appease

verb

• We had no way to appease our hunger.
• They made sacrifices to appease the gods.
• His critics were not appeased by this last speech.
• They appeased the dictator by accepting his demands in an effort to avoid war.
• And the French farmers don’t seem in the mood to be appeased.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• Why won’t the county just turn over the routers to appease Trump?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 July 2021
• That need to appease is gone now, and not just on the climate.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• Will that be long enough to appease the new marathon board?
  — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• The fit suited varying heights and the style appeased a range of ages.
  — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• Their first joint project was shelved to appease their son.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• Rob Manfred and Roger Goodell types try to appease the Left.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 3 Apr. 2021
• No more glass-is-half-full sound bites to appease anyone.
  — J. Michael, Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2019
• Almost all changes in the race over the past decades have come in an effort to appease those sponsors and fans.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2018
• So Michael Saltzman did a rewrite to try and appease them.
  — Will Harris, HWD, 4 May 2018
• But Crawford couldn’t appease the remainder of the crowd.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2017
• And most any effort to appease one side is going to come at the expense of the other.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• The truth is what will shape your life from now on, so even the worst news is better than being appeased.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 1 May 2017
• Critics still weren’t appeased, so Gay tried a third time.
  — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
• So, to appease them and Jesus (and to secure a spot in the Good Place), my brothers and I would play our part.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• This may be a little white lie; however, it’s made to appease your boss and HR, and help keep the peace.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• In the meantime, the district has taken steps to appease its critics.
  — Rosanna Xia, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
• And maybe, to appease the gods of baseball, demolish Mount Davis.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2021
• What Trump will say to appease them on Wednesday is anyone’s guess.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 Jan. 2017
• So now the Heat have to alter their most-effective style in order to appease some sort of set of judges?
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
• Those countries are going to have a tough time pulling off a plan that appeases Iran.
  — Melissa Etehad, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• So far, Johnson has tried to appease both camps — with mixed results.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
• There are quotas to be met and angry customers to appease.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 15 Dec. 2022
• Serve platters with blue cheese dip or make a variety of wings to appease the crowd.
  — Samantha Lande, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2024
• India has offered to reduce its tariffs to appease Trump.
  — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
• There has never been reason to think, and there certainly is no reason to think now, that appeasing Putin is going to lead to him backing off from these grander schemes.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025