Example Sentences

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The move will pacify their fans, but it won’t fix their issues.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2018

And it will pacify us into accepting whatever panic-evoking technology Google and the automobile companies decide we should have, for better or for worse.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2016

What is needed at the Met—as at many other big organizations, notably the New York Philharmonic—is not some magical charismatic personality who will pacify all parties but a fundamental rethinking of the institution.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2016

It may hope that a recent rebound in oil prices to around $50 a barrel will pacify shareholders.

From Economist • May 19, 2016

It is all for the best, dear Nan; and you will pacify them; and it is no use following us; for we shall be in France until it is all smoothed down.

From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William