Sentence examples for we assuage from inspiring English sources

Can we assuage our grief or complete unfinished business by interacting with a computer simulation?

We search for asparagus and hollandaise in May, we turn to shepherd's pie once the air chills and the days begin to shorten, we assuage the over-indulged soul with leek and potato soup in January.

"We assuage public fears by passing ridiculously low limits on radioactivity," he says, but adds that low levels of radioactivity do concern him.

"We are behaving in a neo-colonial way to Africa and we assuage our consciences by giving a bit of foreign aid that in nearly every case goes to the wrong people".

We assuaged people's fears.

On our shopping excursion, the first store we spotted was the toy store, where we assuaged any guilt by loading up with presents to take home.

We assuaged our guilt at depriving our boys of a dog by adopting beings of lower phylla.

But to what extent are we assuaging our own guilt about wanting to be done with this messy process by convincing ourselves it's "what she wants"?

4. Calculate the exercise burn We often tell ourselves that we'll assuage our guilt for overeating by burning it off at the gym the next day.

Or were we simply assuaging our first-world consciences?

While I initially feared I would become a quivering nervous wreck at the thought of my partner with someone else, the openness and honesty we developed assuaged my fears and rid me of my worry of being a "back­-up girlfriend".