How to Use mollify in a Sentence

mollify

verb
  • The landlord fixed the heat, but the tenants still were not mollified.
  • All attempts to mollify the extremists have failed.
  • He tried to mollify his critics with an apology.
  • But the boy wouldn't be mollified.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The anger in his eyes is not mollified by his charcoal suit, blue shirt, black tie, and black dress shoes.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The court’s initial step on ethics, in the spring, did not mollify critics.
    — Mark Sherman, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2023
  • That has not mollified critics who view it as another black mark on her record.
    — Chris Megerian, latimes.com, 9 May 2018
  • Just grab a bottle of wine from your fridge and mollify them with alcohol.
    — Emily Young, sacbee, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The improved league form will do something to mollify that, but only a bit.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The court’s initial step on ethics, in the spring, also did not mollify critics.
    — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Nor is he mollified by the idea of moving everyone to a nearby lot.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • Several members are keen to mollify it, while a few would prefer to be tough.
    — The Economist, 18 June 2020
  • But the war room looked, to some, less like a solution and more like a mollifying stunt—a show put on for the press.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
  • They are not mollified by a plan to impose a national carbon price.
    — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
  • But it's taken steps to shore up its value, which has mollified anxious investors.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Johnson and his leadership team have worked for weeks to mollify concerns.
    — John Parkinson, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the White House had work of its own to mollify rank-and-file Democrats.
    — Stephen Groves, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • Or was this a political visit meant to mollify them?
    — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 26 May 2026
  • Or was this a political visit meant to mollify them?
    — Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • The reason the city commissioned the report was to mollify critics of the police.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2020
  • Even a temporary deal to suspend the debt limit for a short period might not be enough to mollify the ratings firms.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Joe Biden has refused to do so purely out of the wish to mollify his domestic critics on the left flank of his party.
    — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2024
  • So then the question becomes whether Spotify can find the right price to keep him happy and mollify investors.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
  • But not everyone was mollified by the announcement.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 24 Apr. 2026
  • While protesters may be frightened and grieving after last month's bloodbath, they're not mollified.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But the Oregon senators and most other Democrats were not mollified.
    — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 17 May 2018
  • But Durbin and Whitehouse are not going to be mollified by a staff-level discussion.
    — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The order is limited in scope, and some critics of ICE appear to be mollified.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Netflix’s decision back then was in part aimed at mollifying shareholders, who at the time were flipping out over a slowdown in subscriber growth.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • By June, the legislation had been weakened to the point that many ambivalent Democrats were mollified.
    — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2016

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