Sample Sentences for
allay
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  • The medical team's main concerns--damage to my spinal cord, airway, veins, and arteries--have been allayed.  (source)
    allayed = reduced or eliminated
  • Her anxieties, that their life together is a temporary blessing, that soon it will come loose again in strips and tatters, are allayed.  (source)
    allayed = calmed
  • He started a diary in what appeared to be a frustrated attempt to allay and resolve his own doubts.  (source)
    allay = reduce
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  • It allays a feverish thirst that had parched me for many days.†  (source)
  • Allay-loo-yah, a-lay-loo yah, a-lay-loo yah, a-lay-loo yah, a-lay-loo-yah, a-lay-loo-yah!†  (source)
  • Amanda searched his face, expecting the worst, but her fears were allayed almost immediately by his air of exhausted satisfaction.  (source)
    allayed = calmed
  • Amagiri's wake is sweeping the flames away from the wreckage of 109, allaying Kennedy's fears that the gasoline fires will ignite any remaining ammunition or fuel tanks.†  (source)
  • But Jane and me were allays contrairy; she would have striped things, and I like spots.†  (source)
  • He said and did things then that filled me with a fear that no words of Saruman could allay.†  (source)
  • "Gentlemen," I said at last, as the party ascended the steps, "I delight to have allayed your suspicions."  (source)
    allayed = reduced the intensity of or calmed
  • Henry, after allaying her agitation, had taken her over his property, and had explained to her the use and dimensions of the various rooms.†  (source)
  • "I've been allays used to horses," said Tom.†  (source)
  • Henri isn't my father, but I always say he is to allay suspicion.†  (source)
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