How to Use assuage in a Sentence

assuage

verb

• He couldn't assuage his guilt over the divorce.
• Biles assuaged their fears — there’s no deduction for a fall on her stage.
  — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
• Major injections of federal aid, a hot housing market and a more resilient economy have helped assuage those fears here.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 18 June 2021
• The two Mormons, assuaged by this — not to mention the alluring scent of blueberry pie that is wafting through the house — step right in and get down to work.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
• The agreement appeared to assuage the possibility of a strike at the plant, which produces nearly 5% of the nation’s pork every day.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
• There are hopes a cut at the meeting on Sept. 17-18 will assuage concerns about a weakening economy.
  — Karen Gilchrist,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2024
• That wouldn’t assuage privacy advocates who fret over Facebook’s strip-mining of our personal data.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2021
• Tesla has tried to assuage officials in China by addressing criticisms.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 28 June 2021
• Rather than assuaging her opponents, her comments only affirmed the view that veganism is marginal and extreme.
  — Sunaura Taylor, Vox, 7 Aug. 2024
• Victor’s dad is understandably suspicious and nothing Tabitha says can assuage that suspicion.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• Bank of America analysts tried to assuage Apple investors’ concerns around services revenues.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
• The ability to address and assuage customer objections, directly and proactively if possible, is a key component that will set your business apart from others in the market.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Pop these bad boys in the fridge and dole them out to assuage teething pain.
  — Lindsey Hunter Lopez, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
• The Rams didn’t take too long to assuage those worries.
  — Lynn Ramsey, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• But there is a trick that can assuage at least some of the return-to-work pain.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• To get one thing out of the way (and assuage any fears), let it be known that there’s no caramel to be found in the recipe.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 2 Nov. 2021
• But the idea of the sheer number of people that would see [a film] was enough to assuage those fears and sell me on the idea.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• And if that isn’t enough to assuage fans, Jenkins makes one thing very clear: O’Neill is not off the show.
  — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• To Hassig, masks are part of the toolkit that could assuage both fears.
  — Rae Ellen Bichell — Khn Reprints, STAT, 22 Aug. 2021
• I am not assuaged by this and will not be doing a lot of SEC games next fall.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Mar. 2017
• Others are using big checks to assuage guilt and mask a lack of a plan.
  — Aaron Powers, Quartz, 29 Sep. 2021
• In the lawsuit, the states sought to assuage the court about their intentions.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 July 2022
• But those changes were not enough to assuage some critics.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
• Of course, the child is not assuaged; she is traumatized.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018
• The idea is that the single-trip passes could be used to assuage those concerns.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2018
• To assuage male egos or to feel more in touch with family life?
  — Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
• An emptiness, a longing, a pain in your heart that cannot be assuaged?
  — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2019
• But the ballot language is meant to assuage any fears the tax money might go to the project, anyway.
  — Hannah K. Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• But that didn’t assuage the disgruntlement of the game’s loyal fan base.
  — Saro McKenna, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• Nothing can assuage the pain of grief quite like revenge.
  — EW.com, 31 May 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024