Sentence examples for I pacify from inspiring English sources

She is still a voice for women who are trying to balance independence and desire; "I pacify problems with kisses and cuddles," she sang in "Bathwater," "Then find myself choking on all my contradictions".

Whenever I hear or anticipate bad news, or worry in general, or worry about worrying too much, I pacify myself via pretty things.

I pacified my 18-month-old by upending a box of Cheerios and letting him crush each one individually into the rug -- his favorite hobby at the time".

Still, I must pacify my fish-loving family, so I putted up to Ventura for a market selling locally caught fish.

Queen Ranavalona continued the military incursions initiated under Radama I to pacify neighboring kingdoms and maintain their submission to Merina rule.

"I am convinced that voting the way I did pacified the country," he said.

He wasn't very happy with my internet plagiarism, but I tried to pacify him with TS Eliot's remark: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal".

Should I try to pacify him?

And Peter Golub's chamber music sounded too lustrous for the occasion; I felt I was being pacified with an alluring dose of late Romanticism.

As Col. Arana Osorio affirmed: "If it is necessary to turn the country into a cemetery in order to pacify it, I will not hesitate to do so".

I don't try to pacify the protesters, although when they do something that I consider outright stupid I've been known to talk to protesters, and ask them why they are doing what they're doing.