How To Use propitiate In A Sentence
- The little silver bell tinkles at a wayside shrine, calling the labouring man to propitiate the idol for the carelessness and detected dishonesties of his day's labours, and goodly Hindus, men and women, stream down the busy thoroughfare, responsive to the call. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
- The haunting became so intense that in 1999 Buddhist monks were invited to the museum to offer foods to propitiate the restless souls of the victims who had been murdered there.
- In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.
- All people knew (or thought they knew) that he had made himself immensely rich; and, for that reason alone, prostrated themselves before him, more degradedly and less excusably than the darkest savage creeps out of his hole in the ground to propitiate, in some log or reptile, the Deity of his benighted soul. Little Dorrit
- All that needed to be done to propitiate God's wrath and save his people from their sins had been accomplished.
- Rituals associated with ploughing and planting of rice during monsoon and then again later at the end of monsoon were occasions to propitiate the gods for a bountiful harvest.
- In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.
- In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.
- On the one hand, he conceded that the old rites had the weight of immemorial tradition behind them, and no doubt propitiated malevolent spirits.
- Spirit mediums and their adherents built ‘spirit huts’ near trees that were necessary to propitiate malevolent spirits.
