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.
• That means that hours of our lives—hundreds of hours a year—are spent doing a kind of playing pretend just to appease our bosses.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2021
• The price tag will likely drop and ambitions scaled back to appease more centrist lawmakers wary of big spending.
  — Collin Binkley and Lisa Mascaro, ajc, 27 Sep. 2021
• Critics see the move as an effort to appease members of Congress in order to stave off meaningful regulation.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2021
• There were things to quibble over, particularly the insistence on neutral-site games to appease bowls rather than play more on campus, but there was something for every conference to view as a win.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 23 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Between now and then the crucial task for prime minister Barnier is to appease the Rassemblement (old ‘Front National’) on elements of the budget that pertain to the cost of living.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
• But no further arrests have been made, and more threats have come in despite authorities stepping up security measures, threatening legal punishments, appeasing airlines and reassuring panicked passengers.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024