Sample Sentences for
pacify
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    My apology did not pacify her.
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    It made him sick to pacify the Rat Man, but it was the only thing he could think to say to buy himself time.  (source)
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    No one could pacify him.  (source)
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    Discovering, while scuffling with an enemy at a circus, that adults would give quarters to fighting kids to pacify them, Louie declared a truce with the enemy and they cruised around staging brawls before strangers.  (source)
    pacify = calm
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    And for the moment the spirit of the clan was pacified.  (source)
    pacified = calmed
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    And three of them I left behind to carry out additional pacification measures.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    But Sam placed a pacifying hand on her arm.  (source)
    pacifying = calming
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    Conway said pacifyingly: "Well, we'll all admit you couldn't help the typhoon."†  (source)
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    The influence which the bigotry of one female,6 the petulance of another,7 and the cabals of a third,8 had in the contemporary policy, ferments, and pacifications, of a considerable part of Europe, are topics that have been too often descanted upon not to be generally known.†  (source)
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    The conductor's been trying to pacify her.  (source)
    pacify = calm
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    He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.  (source)
    pacified = calmed
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    A century ago the island would have been driven by the bands of dolphins brought here originally during the Hegira, but the Hegemony pacification program during the Siri Rebellion had killed off most of the aquatic mammals and now the islands wandered listlessly, carrying their cargo of Web tourists and resort owners.†  (source)
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    She whirled back toward Clancy, who had put two pacifying hands on her shoulders.†  (source)
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