How to Use assuage in a Sentence

assuage

verb

• He couldn't assuage his guilt over the divorce.
• 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
• The change seemed to assuage many of RFRA’s detractors.
  — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2020
• 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
• But these amendments didn’t assuage many of the concerns that people had raised.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• The slithering reptile was in a glass case, but that didn’t assuage his fears.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
• No one had any words that served to assuage Sinito’s comments.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 July 2021
• And maybe even assuage doubts about her competence to move into the Élysée Palace.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2021
• Changes made to the bill this week don’t assuage advocates’ concerns.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• Biles assuaged their fears — there’s no deduction for a fall on her stage.
  — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
• Microsoft helped assuage concerns that DeepSeek’s model would lead to fewer data centers than previously thought.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025
• Meta, which has committed to achieving carbon neutrality in its operations, is already working to assuage the guilt of relying on carbon dioxide emitting natural gas to run Sucré.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 8 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025