Sentences with pacify
pac·i·fy
P p - Is this a serious step, or is this just something to pacify the critics? [VERB noun]
- Government forces have found it difficult to pacify the rebels. [VERB noun]
- Pacify implies a making quiet and peaceful that which has become noisy or disorderly [to pacify a crying child]; appease suggests a pacifying by gratifying or giving in to the demands of [to appease one's hunger]; mollify suggests a soothing of wounded feelings or an allaying of indignation [his compliments failed to mollify her]; placate implies the changing of a hostile or angry attitude to a friendly or favorable one [to placate an offended colleague]; propitiate implies an allaying or forestalling of hostile feeling by winning the good will of [to propitiate a deity]; conciliate implies the use of arbitration, concession, persuasion, etc. in an attempt to win over
- To pacify an angry man.
- To pacify one's appetite.