Example Sentences

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He mollifies a suspicious Senate subcommittee Did he or didn't he?

From Time Magazine Archive

"It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain."

From Time Magazine Archive

He's half started to bow his neck at Boggs, but they mollifies him.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert

My Madeline's most mirthful mood Much mollifies my mind's machine; My mournfulness' magnitude Melts—makes me merry, Madeline!

From English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. by Anonymous

Hoary hair mollifies minds that are fond of strife and petulant wrangling.

From The Works of Horace by Horace