Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Even he felt that by merely declaring he had "sources" -- never mind who or where -- he was allaying suspicions that he might be making it all up.

From Time Magazine Archive

While he was allaying Jacobinical zeal and royalist bigotry, could Britons afford to keep up internal causes of friction, and, disunited among themselves, face a hostile world in arms?

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland