Sentence examples for placate my from inspiring English sources

Walking into the theatre with two very excited children did placate my concerns; they were engrossed and their imaginations captured.

The permanent queen-sized mattress installed at the Airstream's very distant back seemed to placate my wife who, like me but with greater foreboding, had expected to assemble something from many lengths of sofa cushion.

The performance "helped placate my longing to see people who look like me on stage", she wrote, "[but] why do we need validation from a US artist on a British platform?

I'm sitting here in the TechCrunch office, on a Sunday evening, trying to placate my editorial paymasters by bashing out something resembling a column in the five minutes I have between conference calls with TCTV contributors.

I kept my apartment for over a year to placate my more conservative parents, an expensive extra closet.

"Continue with your story honey," I placate, my voice flat, attempting to cover up the shadow cast at the dinner table.

That sermon was more about placating my need to be right than about preaching the Gospel.

If I'm being honest, our relationship was all about placating my ego.

These solutions are necessary to placate those who evaluate my value to my institution and to satisfy my needs as a scientist.

Ayatollah Khamenei tried at first to placate them, calling them "my children" and condemning the attack on the dormitories.

Part of the book is about my hatred of my physical self and yet my need to placate it.