How to Use assuage in a Sentence

assuage

verb

• He couldn't assuage his guilt over the divorce.
• Pop these bad boys in the fridge and dole them out to assuage teething pain.
  — Lindsey Hunter Lopez, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
• Others are using big checks to assuage guilt and mask a lack of a plan.
  — Aaron Powers, Quartz, 29 Sep. 2021
• But those changes were not enough to assuage some critics.
  — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
• But there is a trick that can assuage at least some of the return-to-work pain.
  — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• The Rams didn’t take too long to assuage those worries.
  — Lynn Ramsey, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• In the lawsuit, the states sought to assuage the court about their intentions.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 July 2022
• The idea is that the single-trip passes could be used to assuage those concerns.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2018
• His response to the latest test will have done little to assuage these fears.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Any scene with a new set or a new location helped assuage the grief.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
• Of course, the child is not assuaged; she is traumatized.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018
• But the idea of the sheer number of people that would see [a film] was enough to assuage those fears and sell me on the idea.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• But the ballot language is meant to assuage any fears the tax money might go to the project, anyway.
  — Hannah K. Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• An emptiness, a longing, a pain in your heart that cannot be assuaged?
  — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2019
• But these amendments didn’t assuage many of the concerns that people had raised.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• To get one thing out of the way (and assuage any fears), let it be known that there’s no caramel to be found in the recipe.
  — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 2 Nov. 2021
• To Hassig, masks are part of the toolkit that could assuage both fears.
  — Rae Ellen Bichell — Khn Reprints, STAT, 22 Aug. 2021
• His remarks may help assuage the fears of some big-money donors.
  — Nicholas Nehamas, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• Nothing will assuage the grief of his friends and family.
  — Star Tribune, 29 June 2021
• Changes made to the bill this week don’t assuage advocates’ concerns.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• There was little Macron could do to assuage those concerns.
  — Andrew Day, The Week, 4 Apr. 2022
• But this did little to assuage the town’s anger and frustration.
  — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• On board, fliers will find changes to cabins designed to assuage their concerns.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2020
• Old-time religion fails to assuage shame over his yearnings and abuse.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
• No one had any words that served to assuage Sinito’s comments.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 July 2021
• I am not assuaged by this and will not be doing a lot of SEC games next fall.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Mar. 2017
• Twitter’s new toggle seeks to assuage both types of usage.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2018
• Perhaps the gesture is meant to assuage your guilt — akin to buying a carbon offset.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• Victor is startled by this, maybe even a bit impressed, but not enough to assuage his anger.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• To be sure, men have long been sanitized posthumously to assuage and erase the guilt of those left behind.
  — Eboni Marshall Turman, The Root, 7 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024