Example Sentences

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Allaying these fears would have been on Xi's agenda this week.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

Allaying those doubts ranks high on health officials’ agendas.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2015

Allaying market anxieties as well was an uncharacteristically non-opaque endorsement from Alan Greenspan reassuring Wall Street that Greenspan and Summers, whose friendship is well documented, have a close working relationship.

From Time Magazine Archive

And doubtless there was a more marvellous melody in her voice than in the mysterious magical music "That crept by him upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and his passion With its sweet air."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various

Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the king my father's wreck, This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various