Assuage Sentence Examples

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  • I did what little I could to assuage my guilt.

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  • He tried to assuage the guilt of wrongdoing by doing right.

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  • He was able to assuage the bad feelings.

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  • He made a mental note to send a piece of jewelry to her hotel room to assuage guilt over the promised phone call that would never happen.

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  • She tried to assuage all feuds; in an inventory of her jewels she left many of them to Darnley, in case she and her child did not survive its birth.

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  • I am going to assuage my tiredness by drinking some coffee this morning.

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  • I will give my elderly neighbor a visit to assuage her loneliness.

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  • In order to assuage the temperamental child, the mother let him pick out a piece of candy.

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  • People often try to assuage the guilt of wrongdoing by doing right.

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  • It will assuage the fears of subscribers worried about publicly associating themselves with fiction.

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  • This fact did little to assuage Jade.s guilt when he saw the slaughter around the place he.d once called home.

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  • Have you tried asking for forgiveness to assuage your guiltyconscience?

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  • When considerably diluted they are only slightly irritating; externally applied and in the stomach they have an antiseptic action; they increase the secretion of saliva, and thus assuage thirst.

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  • They will also assuage and engender the view that their former partner suffers from a number of moral and personal problems.

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  • These ideas became known to his Spanish rulers, and to assuage them he wrote a philippic called the Mars gallicus (1635), a violent attack on French ambitions generally, and on Richelieu's indifference to international Catholic interests in particular.

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  • Co-parents frequently use gifts to gain favor with children or to assuage their guilt.

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  • Eric understands the message and sends an appropriate tribute to assuage the Maenad.

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  • Even the mild grief at the loss of our most regular comedy figure won't assuage the extreme pleasure at his resignation.

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  • This powerlessness translated itself into elaborate funeral rituals to assuage the grief of those left behind.

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  • A fee to help assuage the cost of the animal's care while in the shelter is also required.

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  • This attempt to assuage some criticism over the war only reveals how weak the two chief warmongers are.

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  • In order to assuage consumer confusion, the Federal Trade Commission periodically considers banning the use of the terms precious and semi precious entirely.

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  • Have you tried asking for forgiveness to assuage your guilty conscience?

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