PROPITIATE in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for PROPITIATE, such as:

1. That feature too is propitious.
2. It was not a propitious time to start a new business.
3. The natives offered sacrifices to propitiate the gods.
4. Especially I felt this when I made any attempt to propitiate him.
5. Fit to cry, I took an orange from my pocket, and offered it to propitiate him.

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 Meanings and Examples of PROPITIATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
propitiate
 v.  make peace with; appease and render favorable
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  I like old Sam so well, I think I'll try the second volume, returned Jo, hoping to propitiate him by accepting a second dose of Boswell's Johnson, as he had recommended that lively work.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
2  I wish first and foremost to propitiate the great goddess Minerva, who manifested herself visibly to me during yesterday's festivities.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK III
3  Especially I felt this when I made any attempt to propitiate him.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  Fit to cry, I took an orange from my pocket, and offered it to propitiate him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  The dread of Selden's suspecting that there was any need for her to propitiate such a man as Rosedale checked the trivial phrases of politeness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
6  The consciousness increased her irritation against Rosedale, but also her feeling that now, if ever, was the moment to propitiate him, hateful as it was to do so in Selden's presence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
7  He knew an abundance of simple acts to propitiate and invite the approaches of the little people, and he resolved to play his part right skilfully.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  As I drew nearer to them, trying to propitiate the tinker by my looks, I observed that the woman had a black eye.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
9  Your manner, which I must say does not seem intended to propitiate, induces me to think it possible.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
10  Her demeanour was that of respect, unmingled by the least shade either of fear, or of a wish to propitiate favour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  There had been something so tremendous in the shrinking off of the three, that the wretched man was willing to propitiate even this lad.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
12  But he was misled by a preconceived opinion, and failed to understand that ill-will is not to be vanquished by time nor propitiated by favours.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III.
13  Taking advantage of the propitious moment, Meg slipped away and ran down to greet her husband with a smiling face and the little blue bow in her hair which was his especial admiration.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
14  A stealthy glance now and then refreshed her like sips of fresh water after a dusty walk, for the sidelong peeps showed her several propitious omens.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
15  That feature too is propitious.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  The natives offered sacrifices to propitiate the gods.
2  In those days people might sacrifice a goat or sheep to propitiate an angry god.
3  They should wait for the most propitious moment between now and the next election.
4  It was not a propitious time to start a new business.
5  Chloe consulted her horoscope to see whether Tuesday would be a propitious day to dump her boyfriend.