How to Use assuage in a Sentence

assuage

verb

• He couldn't assuage his guilt over the divorce.
• An amendment added last week may assuage some concerns about marijuana law enforcement.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Feb. 2021
• But rather than assuage those worries, officials in São Paulo appear to have exacerbated them.
  — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
• On average, planes were expected to be more than a third empty, even after dropping an empty-middle-seat strategy to assuage customers.
  — Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2021
• Personally speaking, video games, with their synthetic rewards and twinkly distractions, didn’t quite manage to assuage my weariness with the world this year.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2020
• On the medicine side of things, Kennedy’s omission of vaccines from his latest policy discussions isn’t assuaging public health experts’ fears.
  — Meg Tirrell, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
• Offit’s and Pan’s reassurances will surely not assuage everyone, and here demographics play a role.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Jan. 2021
• By contrast, the archetypal cozy figure at her desk, plugged into multiple screens, is an image of loneliness which is also meant to assuage loneliness.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
• Grounding yourself in the present moment and focusing on what’s actually in your control—a process known as mindfulness—can help assuage those difficult emotions.
  — Jenny McCoy, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2021
• While educators were thrust to the front of the vaccination line, the move has done little to assuage the trepidation some Portland-area teachers feel in returning to the classroom.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 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
• His response to the latest test will have done little to assuage these fears.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Any scene with a new set or a new location helped assuage the grief.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024