Examples of 'allay' in a sentence
Meaning of "allay"
allay (verb): To diminish or alleviate fears, concerns, or doubts, often in the context of calming someone's emotions or reducing the intensity of a negative feeling or situation
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- To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
- To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
- To subside, abate, become peaceful.
- To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
How to use "allay" in a sentence
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I hope this will allay your suspicions.
To allay any fears in the public mind.
I trust time will allay these feelings.
To allay anxieties about the feasibility of the changeover.
Maybe you can allay her fears.
To allay the fears of the public.
Think you need to allay his unhappiness.
The individual chapter titles do nothing to allay this.
Special efforts to allay these misperceptions are needed.
She went to a lot of trouble to allay your fears.
Amarinder tried to allay this fear of industrialists.
Nina attempts unsuccessfully to allay her fears.
Council seeks to allay fears of local residents.
But saying my name does not allay my fears.
This will allay the anxiety of many farmers.
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Steps must be taken to allay such fears.
If it will allay this tension between us.
We must do everything we can to allay consumer fears.
I am trying to allay his fears that we act peremptoriIy.
This medicine will allay the pain.
My aim was to allay the timidity he had about people.
Just a friendly call to allay your fears.
Would allay fears about disrupting ongoing transports function.
That can help allay their fears.
A fear of being late seems to allay.
Perhaps you could allay their fears.
It will allay your pain and procure your rest.
It is the only way to allay public anxieties.
To allay his thirst they gave him vinegar to drink.
And continued affection to allay any suspicion.
This should allay your doubts about his culpability.
My redundant undertakings would allay mistrust of my kind.
To allay the pangs of unease.
This book is intended to allay this fear.
This should allay their fears over job losses.
His lawyer does nothing to allay his concerns.
Allay your fears.
I have nothing to say to allay your suspicions.
Allay the situation.
Documented procedures can allay those concerns.
Some allay suspicion.
The answer did nothing to allay his fears.
In order to allay any misapprehension.
Of course that did nothing to allay his fears.
This may help to allay your concerns or anxiety.
Modernisation can do much to allay that.
I think may allay them somewhat.
I raised my voice in a cheery shout to allay their fears.
I want to allay those fears.
So far nothing has happened to allay our fears.
