Wondering how to use Placate in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as pacify or tranquilize.
Placate meaning
To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
Synonyms of Placate
Using Placate
- The main meaning on this page is: To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.
- Useful related words include: pacify, tranquillise, tranquillize, tranquilize.
- In the example corpus, placate often appears in combinations such as: to placate, placate the, and placate.
Context around Placate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Placate
- In this selection, "placate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, essentially, viewers, savers and london stand out and add context to how "placate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agree to placate her and and attempt to placate the situation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "placate" sits close to words such as adversarial, archibald and ashraf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with placate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I agree to placate her and go on to take the bus. (12 words)
Swedish Pension Fund Chief Tries to Placate Savers Angry Over $2 Billion Lossesbloomberg. (13 words)
But with that in mind, Atlanta does not have to placate to the rabid Georgia fans. (16 words)
Those in high places have provided much grandiose chatter about the wonderful addition of so many more millions of gallons of water, and so many more reverse osmosis plants, It’s all a Brer Anancy story, designed to placate us. (40 words)
There was perhaps little to excite – or placate – London's renters in last week's Autumn Statement, though Jeremy Hunt's pledge to extend the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme may prove a boon to those hamstrung by a small deposit. (39 words)
If you’re conspiratorially minded you could imagine that perhaps they’re just saying that to placate Konami, but either way it is likely the game’s release date will be later in the year and not this summer. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
But with that in mind, Atlanta does not have to placate to the rabid Georgia fans.
Gorsuch’s appearance may have been an act of contrition, designed to placate Trump’s wrath.
In addition, Dominion alleged some Fox News hosts seemingly endorsed the lies and executives allowed it all to happen to placate viewers.
Swedish Pension Fund Chief Tries to Placate Savers Angry Over $2 Billion Lossesbloomberg.
There was perhaps little to excite – or placate – London's renters in last week's Autumn Statement, though Jeremy Hunt's pledge to extend the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme may prove a boon to those hamstrung by a small deposit.
Those in high places have provided much grandiose chatter about the wonderful addition of so many more millions of gallons of water, and so many more reverse osmosis plants, It’s all a Brer Anancy story, designed to placate us.
After being unable to placate Sena rebels, Uddhav resigned as Chief Minister on June 29 and his government fell.
But from her opening salvo, Ms. Harris would break the current taboo on diplomacy, show she won’t tolerate another forever war and assert America’s interests as an independent country unafraid to pressure friends or placate foes.
De Zerbi has a healthy ego of his own and is not one who would naturally try to placate or compromise.
Dr. Shafik had already angered many at Columbia with her testimony on Capitol Hill on April 17, when she tried to placate Republican lawmakers but provoked outrage on campus, in part for not robustly defending academic freedom.
His papers’ capitulation to essentially placate Trump, since there is no other way to view it, signals a dangerous reality concerning how big business may work in our tittering democracy.
I agree to placate her and go on to take the bus.
If you’re conspiratorially minded you could imagine that perhaps they’re just saying that to placate Konami, but either way it is likely the game’s release date will be later in the year and not this summer.
Instead of trying to placate everyone in the hopes of serving some kind of imaginary “perfect customer,” learn to accept the diversity of your user base and the simple reality that pleasing everyone is impossible.
It had been a really busy period for me, with many lifestyle changes and work-related burnout, so finding something that was helping me placate that so quickly was unexpected and almost seemed surreal.
Known as a "butcher" for his murder of protesters at a mining site, Herbert has his own set of ideas as to how to placate the working class.
Maduro doesn’t have many options and certainly doesn’t appear to believe he’d receive much leniency if he negotiates with the West, steps down, or redoes an election to placate his critics.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, has seen his domestic standing pummeled by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and has to placate his own electorate even as the U.S. continues to provide key military and diplomatic support to Israel.
The latest plan shows amendments to the layout with the main access point being moved but this has failed to placate planning officers who are again recommending the proposal is rejected.
The show's bosses — alarmed at the prospect of losing Ola — called a crisis meeting with the women to attempt to placate the situation.
Common combinations with placate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to placate 80×
- placate the 26×
- and placate 7×
- placate his 5×
- placate him 5×
- placate or 3×
- placate trump 2×
- or placate 2×
- placate us 2×
- placate her 2×