appeases

present tense third-person singular of appease

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The result is a fun project that placates the listener looking for smooth R&B, but offers more than a few tricks for those seeking some boundary-pushing.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Our project, after the rule and collapse of the Hamas-ISIS government, is to secure the people and move them through the transitional phase … to civilian institutions that govern in a way that pleases God, far from their personal interests.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Everything about it pleases me, from the correctness of all the enclitic marks upward, to the astonishing lambency of the whole.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Then, the still sweet voice calms me.
    BEA L. HINES, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Centella asiatica calms skin and keeps it comfortable for a balanced, radiance-enhancing treatment.
    Deanna Pai, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Glacial water helps rebalance minerals, squalane restores suppleness, and olive leaf extract soothes redness and helps keep breakouts in check with its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial properties.
    Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 18 Oct. 2025
  • This spirit of delusion soothes Max and Christian enough to lead them to hug out their differences.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The monastery is central to the story, and its elder—named Zosima in the novel—comforts a woman who has lost her child, aged two years and nine months, with words that echo those uttered by Ambrose.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Redford played Officer Harold Beldon, a gentle embodiment of Death who comforts an elderly woman terrified of dying.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Her younger sister, meanwhile, pacifies their father with silence.
    Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hamas wants Israel to pull all troops out of Gaza and not restart the war, but Israel is unlikely to do that unless Hamas disarms, the AP reported.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Israeli troops still occupy Gaza and won't be withdrawing until Hamas disarms.
    NPR, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Gerard Powers consoles his 10-year-old stepson who is lying on the couch on board a cruise ship.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
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