Sentence examples for placate you from inspiring English sources

Having wrecked your trip you would think staff would be doing their utmost to placate you, but you experienced quite the opposite.

But when the main event is delayed by well over an hour, you've paid £100 for a ticket and you've missed your last train home, the only thing that is going to placate you is if you're served up the Thrilla in Manila.

"I don't mean to say that to placate you.

This is News Shopper's raison d'être: to alert you to danger and then placate you with toilet humor.

Sometimes I give in and placate you, but dammit IT'S MY PHONE AND I WANT TO PLAY WITH IT!

This is News Shopper's raison d'etre: to alert you to danger and then placate you with toilet humour.

Then take a man or woman born to the task of reciting epic poetry from memory and picking the ripest words out of the air to praise or placate – now you have a griot: the hereditary bard of West Africa.

Our hooded friend on the left tried to placate him: "You have to take a stand," he said.

To reduce doubt or worry about your future joy, health or relationships, do you placate people or tolerate traditions you'd normally steer clear from?

You might walk on eggshells and do everything you can do to placate him, because you remember how charming and funny he can be.

Do not imagine that you can placate them by showering "development" and "reconstruction" on them in the post-war era.