Pacified

Usage examples of placated.

She was not placated by Easley leaning over to murmur something to the British naval officer.

When Sighshy herself was invited back into the vehicle the stench increased tenfold, and she growled at Gentle in a less than friendly manner, but Dado placated her with baby talk, and she was soon curled up on the seat beside him, suckling her fat babes.

The cords had an urgency of their own, and whether it was Celestine who moved them, or Roxborough who'd plaited into them the instruction to destroy anyone who came seeking his prisoner's release, they were not about to be placated or contained.

However alluring its colors were, however satisfying its geometries and exquisite its details, the city was the work of a collective madness: a compulsive vision that had refused to be placated until it had covered every inch of the Dominion with monuments to its own relentlessness.

The beams placated them for a time, soothing their frenzy and piercing them, so that Gentle had a glimpse of the ground they were moving over.

Ibrahim, the porter, complained bitterly about having to get out of bed to let him in, and he placated the old man with a dinar.

Nor, would she be placated, even after Mimi had gone upstairs and returned saying something about the mirror in the tall-boy door.