How To Use Placating In A Sentence
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Isabelle was standing at John's side, her face turning imploringly up to his, speaking softly, placatingly.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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OK, 1'11 get the information you want," Whitlock replied in a placating voice, then gestured in the direction of the hall.
CODE BREAKER
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In this film, after walloping us with images and falsely placating us with words, the director blinds us with light.
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So I started to hum and haw placatingly, while she snapped in a voice like ice:
Fiancée
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He saw Norfolk flush, remembered he needed a favor from the choleric human, and added placatingly, "Truth to tell, my lord, I had never noticed it either, until I saw it open, and I have accompanied the children to the pond once or twice.
This Scepter'd Isle
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It's because we consider placating the readers of laddie mags just so beneath them.
Naked Female Comedians: Please Put Your Clothes Back On (PHOTOS)
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Jenny smiled placatingly
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“Okay, okay,” Marsha said to Keith placatingly, while at the same time tightening her hold on the trembling dog.
Whispers At Midnight
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Jaspers looked at Mr. Steger very flatly and wisely — almost placatingly under the circumstances — and
The Financier
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I didn't mean to upset you," Agnew said in a placating voice.
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I don't suppose they'll bother any one," she offered placatingly, "I mean, they quickly learn where they're allowed to go and who ...
You Don't Take Names
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Debbie Price's attempt at placating noises petered out in a familiar grumble: `Well, don't take it out on me.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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When are we going to learn in this country that placating the minority to the detriment of the law-abiding community will only end in chaos?
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Holding his hands out placatingly, Shipley dropped his gruff tone.
EMPIRE
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In fact, some say that the public option was always doomed - that the Administration cut a deal in which they'd make a half-heated attempt to fight for it and would then let it die, placating the always-compliant liberal wing with another mantric repetition of the phrase "we didn't get everything we wanted, but ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Health Bill, The Price of Everything, and What to Do Next
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In our scale of things, he's an infant," Rosa said, putting on her best placating tone.
SACRAMENT
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It offers him a political twofer: placating his corporate donors while winning the hearts and votes of the true believers who helped the president achieve a Second Coming of his own.
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The cave's acoustics intensified the sound, causing her to become fully aware of the headache she was trying to ignore in the hope of placating it.
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placating (or placative) gestures
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Placating protesting workers may help calm a tense situation.
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And for a very good reason: the genre is crapulous, status-quo-reifying, herd-placating "family fare.
Why Juno Is Loathsome
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Let it be," said Cadfael placatingly, seeing how the boy laboured at the thing he could not understand.
A River So Long
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He said placatingly, `We do have to work together, after all.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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These people put their time in by performing numerous tasks, including starting, marshaling, first aid, placating "finicky" golfers, janitorial work, cart maintenance and, of course, lessons to beginning golfers.
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When she raised her head, Clarke was in the far corner of the room with his hands, palms out, placatingly in front of him.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
