How to Use appeasement in a Sentence

appeasement

noun
  • Now is not the time for appeasement of an agenda that attacks facts.
    — Nick Hollkamp, The Courier-Journal, 18 May 2018
  • The best that such companies can hope for is short-term appeasement.
    — Andrew V. Abela, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The price of appeasement, as history has taught us, is too steep.
    — Madeline Roache, Time, 12 Nov. 2019
  • That led to the penny-wise, pound-foolish path of appeasement.
    — Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This strategy of appeasement has not worked.
    — Michael McFaul, Time, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Pacifism and appeasement in the short term often postpone war and are achieved at little cost.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 3 Oct. 2017
  • David Davis referred to appeasement before the second world war.
    — Matthew Sweet, The Economist, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Biden’s policy appeasement, on the other hand, has been a 15-year project.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 22 Feb. 2022
  • At a row of chairs nearby, massages were being sold—decadent appeasement for the people.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Yet, history demonstrates that appeasement has never led to peace.
    — Nolan Lebovitz, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
  • History may look back on this as a failure of nerve equal to the appeasement of the 1930s.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Worst of all, the AfD supports the appeasement of Russia.
    — Rebeccah Heinrichs, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The lesson of history is that appeasement and hope are not a strategy against a bloodthirsty tyrant.
    — U.s. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The list of spirits is long, each with their own physical attributes, epic folklore and methods of appeasement.
    — Vanessa Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
  • Progress, as McCarthy defined it, looked an awful lot like appeasement.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Ukraine’s struggle cannot be concluded with the appeasement of Russia.
    — New York Times, 16 May 2022
  • Biden’s appeasement of Iran and his ridiculous pressures on Israel are a large part of his legacy.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 July 2024
  • There is no avoiding the consequences of appeasement if China swallows it up.
    — Bing West, National Review, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Piper and Saxon are locked in battle for Lochy’s soul and Lochy has chosen appeasement.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
  • If Zelensky had made the deal before the invasion, that would be appeasement.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Beratement after the fact does not work, and the guilty look is better interpreted as fear or appeasement.
    — Julie Hecht, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • All of this is -- right now, this appeasement is this Georgia Senate runoff strategy.
    — NBC News, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Peace must be rooted in justice, not appeasement—and should not reward a war criminal for his aggression.
    — Oleksandra Matviichuk, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That appeasement clearly failed, as Putin invaded Ukraine on their watch five years later.
    — Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • Some lawmakers who have long called for a tougher stance on China criticized the visit as a form of appeasement.
    — The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Two years later, in a speech from Verdun, France, the former King called for appeasement.
    — Town & Country, 18 Nov. 2022
  • These examples are powerful reminders that in the face of divide-and-conquer, appeasement does not work.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
  • History shows that appeasement leads to greater aggression.
    — Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Sheinbaum’s policy of Trump appeasement may well be the least-bad course open to Mexico.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Now, four years later, trying again with a few tweaks of appeasement, Macron doesn’t seem very likely to escape a much different fate.
    — David A. Andelman, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023

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