How to Use assuage in a Sentence

assuage

verb
  • He couldn't assuage his guilt over the divorce.
  • Pop these bad boys in the fridge and dole them out to assuage teething pain.
    — Lindsey Hunter Lopez, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
  • But the vow has not assuaged local youth.
    — Amindeh Blaise Atabong, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But his worries about the episode were assuaged.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But there is a trick that can assuage at least some of the return-to-work pain.
    — Mark Murphy, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • To assuage male egos or to feel more in touch with family life?
    — Nell Frizzell, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Any scene with a new set or a new location helped assuage the grief.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Others are using big checks to assuage guilt and mask a lack of a plan.
    — Aaron Powers, Quartz, 29 Sep. 2021
  • But that will do little to assuage them in the meantime.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 17 Feb. 2026
  • His remarks may help assuage the fears of some big-money donors.
    — Nicholas Nehamas, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But to what end, for whose benefit, or to assuage what fears?
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • In an instant, Urbina’s fears had been assuaged.
    — Naisha Roy, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • An emptiness, a longing, a pain in your heart that cannot be assuaged?
    — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Her grief was the bitterest one, and it couldn’t be assuaged.
    — Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Biles assuaged their fears — there’s no deduction for a fall on her stage.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Berch hoped that the new, milder language would assuage those issues.
    — Mark Dee march 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • That did not assuage Owen's concerns.
    — Jolene Almendarez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Nov. 2025
  • And the purpose is not to assuage adults, or to respond to adult panic.
    — Adam Howard, Time, 10 June 2026
  • His response to the latest test will have done little to assuage these fears.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Numbers can go only so far to assuage fear and concerns.
    — Richard Besser, STAT, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The start of this season did little to assuage my concerns.
    — Law Murray, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • The idea is that the single-trip passes could be used to assuage those concerns.
    — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 19 Apr. 2018
  • To Hassig, masks are part of the toolkit that could assuage both fears.
    — Rae Ellen Bichell — Khn Reprints, STAT, 22 Aug. 2021
  • No one had any words that served to assuage Sinito’s comments.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 July 2021
  • The slithering reptile was in a glass case, but that didn’t assuage his fears.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • To get one thing out of the way (and assuage any fears), let it be known that there’s no caramel to be found in the recipe.
    — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 2 Nov. 2021
  • In the lawsuit, the states sought to assuage the court about their intentions.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 July 2022
  • But these amendments didn’t assuage many of the concerns that people had raised.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • On board, fliers will find changes to cabins designed to assuage their concerns.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2020
  • But that didn’t assuage the disgruntlement of the game’s loyal fan base.
    — Saro McKenna, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

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