How to Use assuage in a Sentence

assuage

verb
  • He couldn't assuage his guilt over the divorce.
  • Pop these bad boys in the fridge and dole them out to assuage teething pain.
    — Lindsey Hunter Lopez, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The Rams didn’t take too long to assuage those worries.
    — Lynn Ramsey, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • But there is a trick that can assuage at least some of the return-to-work pain.
    — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • To get one thing out of the way (and assuage any fears), let it be known that there’s no caramel to be found in the recipe.
    — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 2 Nov. 2021
  • But the idea of the sheer number of people that would see [a film] was enough to assuage those fears and sell me on the idea.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • And if that isn’t enough to assuage fans, Jenkins makes one thing very clear: O’Neill is not off the show.
    — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • To Hassig, masks are part of the toolkit that could assuage both fears.
    — Rae Ellen Bichell — Khn Reprints, STAT, 22 Aug. 2021
  • I am not assuaged by this and will not be doing a lot of SEC games next fall.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Others are using big checks to assuage guilt and mask a lack of a plan.
    — Aaron Powers, Quartz, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In the lawsuit, the states sought to assuage the court about their intentions.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 July 2022
  • But those changes were not enough to assuage some critics.
    — Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Of course, the child is not assuaged; she is traumatized.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The idea is that the single-trip passes could be used to assuage those concerns.
    — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The change seemed to assuage many of RFRA’s detractors.
    — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2020
  • To assuage male egos or to feel more in touch with family life?
    — Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
  • An emptiness, a longing, a pain in your heart that cannot be assuaged?
    — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2019
  • But the ballot language is meant to assuage any fears the tax money might go to the project, anyway.
    — Hannah K. Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • But that didn’t assuage the disgruntlement of the game’s loyal fan base.
    — Saro McKenna, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Nothing can assuage the pain of grief quite like revenge.
    — EW.com, 31 May 2024
  • His response to the latest test will have done little to assuage these fears.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • And that seemed to assuage Susan Collins who posed that question there.
    — ABC News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Any scene with a new set or a new location helped assuage the grief.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
  • But these amendments didn’t assuage many of the concerns that people had raised.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The slithering reptile was in a glass case, but that didn’t assuage his fears.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • No one had any words that served to assuage Sinito’s comments.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 July 2021
  • And maybe even assuage doubts about her competence to move into the Élysée Palace.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2021
  • Changes made to the bill this week don’t assuage advocates’ concerns.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
  • Biles assuaged their fears — there’s no deduction for a fall on her stage.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • This is bad news for Jeff, who is attempting to assuage his karma by finding a missing cat, donating some old DVDs, and volunteering for an afternoon at a nursing home.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025

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