How to Use conciliatory in a Sentence

conciliatory

adjective

• Cohen reached out his arms and laughed in a conciliatory gesture, but the Queen of pop wasn't finished with him.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
• Cobb said the applicant should be conciliatory about the offense and then promote their good acts since the crime.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
• The government’s earlier conciliatory approach may been prompted by the scale of the protest, the largest in about a decade.
  — Elisha Bala-Gbogbo, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2020
• At the end of the contentious race, Mr. Murphy sounded a conciliatory note.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• Iger’s comments were more conciliatory than has past remarks on the strikes.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Despite the brief threat to its marquee event, the company struck a conciliatory tone in its Monday statement about the talks.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
• To them, the conciliatory language politics of Nehru and Indira Gandhi are a thing of the past.
  — Phillip M. Carter, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• Two young lads — one English, one Spanish — show how it should be done by sharing a conciliatory chat.
  — Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
• Bowlsby struck a conciliatory note on the new conference while throwing a little shade on the side.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2021
• Niccol has taken a more conciliatory tone with the union.
  — Azure Gilman, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
• But analysts say that in his third decade in power and final term in office, the Turkish strongman may be on a conciliatory path with the West.
  — Zeena Saifi, CNN, 12 July 2023
• On the other hand, his memoir rarely reads as conciliatory.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• Nearly nine years later, Hodge's tone is more conciliatory than his 2016 statement to the hearing board.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024
• Even a conciliatory note from Lennon failed to mend relations.
  — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
• Rather than focusing on whether or not a consumer can connect to the internet in the first place, providers will need to adopt more of a conciliatory approach toward their customers.
  — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• What’s surprising is how conciliatory the other four band members are to Yorke.
  — Chuck Klosterman, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2023
• Despite the relatively conciliatory tone struck by McCarthy and Biden, the two parties are far from an agreement on the debt ceiling.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
• In a conciliatory masterclass with regard to streamers, that message came across loud and clear.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• Latimer sought to strike a conciliatory note in a victory speech to cheering supporters in White Plains.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024
• While the first half hour of his speech struck a more conciliatory tone, the rest of Trump’s speech was a greatest hits album marked by hyperbolic warnings about America and false claims of election fraud.
  — Candy Woodall, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2024
• Bass has employed a more careful and conciliatory tone.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
• But Ting strikes a conciliatory tone toward rivals like Bird, whose shares have fallen 94% this year on fears the e-scooter revolution has peaked.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
• Kennedy himself took a more conciliatory—and sometimes avoidant—approach to civil rights issues early in his term.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• In recent years, the British monarchy has adopted a more conciliatory tone when addressing the past horrors of transatlantic slavery.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
• In a conciliatory gesture, Wagner gaveled open Senate floor sessions this week but did not conduct a roll call.
  — Andrew Selsky, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• Like Mapps, Ryan also sounded a conciliatory note toward the police chief, noting Lovell was sworn in during a very turbulent time in June.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2020
• The Taliban, wary of once again governing as an international pariah, has tried to strike a more conciliatory tone this time around.
  — Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2021
• The two were perfectly positioned to shift to a more conciliatory approach.
  — Jomana Karadsheh and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
• Other left-leaning aldermen who did not sign the 41-person letter ripping Johnson for the schools fight struck a more conciliatory tone.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2024
• Postgame, Amorim was much more conciliatory in his comments than with Garnacho.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025