How to Use placate in a Sentence

placate

verb

• The angry customer was not placated by the clerk's apology.
• The administration placated protesters by agreeing to consider their demands.
• And the draft that has emerged appears to try to placate both.
  — Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News, 22 June 2017
• The twins are then clothed, fed, and adorned to placate the spirit of the deceased.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
• The second column seemed to placate most of those angered by the first, but not all.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 8 Nov. 2022
• My plan was to use an assumed name but even this doesn't placate him.
  — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
• But that did little to placate those who want the artwork removed.
  — Isabel Debre, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2019
• The other women cooed and hummed to try to placate her curly-haired toddler.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• That’s not true — but once again, the city wants to placate adults at the expense of children.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• There, the town chief tried to placate the armed visitors with money and a prized cow.
  — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
• There was no base to placate or excite in the hours of Charlottesville.
  — CBS News, 7 June 2019
• But one look at the forthcoming movie’s cast should placate even the most doubtful mind.
  — Estelle Tang, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2019
• Critics said the ban was long overdue and done to placate protesters.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2021
• Erstwhile rock and roll rebels have cleaned up their acts to placate censors or been sidelined.
  — Reuters, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2017
• On the road below, guards tried to placate a group begging for drinking water.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Wellington tries to placate her, but Keane isn't having any of it.
  — Ethan Renner, baltimoresun.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• The message did not appear to placate his southern neighbors.
  — NBC News, 26 Sep. 2020
• Renteria is not going to change his persona to placate the media or fans.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• The apologies did little to placate those calling for Moore's job.
  — Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 3 June 2020
• The government could explore ways in which they could be placated.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
• Trump, placated, agreed to the arrangement, and stood down.
  — Murray Waas, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
• Back in the car, Arce decided to change tactics and stop trying to placate the man.
  — Tricia Nadolny, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2019
• Comey erred by bending over backward to placate their paranoia.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 25 June 2018
• The second call was meant to placate Chinese fears about the events of Jan. 6.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2021
• The latest email to subscribers is a mind-boggling attempt to disarm and placate them with a puppy.
  — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
• When experts have spent decades crafting tinkling tones to placate us, why does our blood still boil?
  — Frankie Adkins, Wired, 6 Dec. 2021
• But Downtown isn't taking that risk to placate one of its staff writers.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 20 June 2018
• Ms Patel’s trip to the seaside was an attempt to placate such critics.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• Maybe that deal has to be kept private, in order to placate Ukraine's leaders.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 8 Dec. 2021
• Some coalition members have chafed at the need to placate Washington.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024