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16 example sentences for ALLAY, such as:
1. The tumult of Elizabeth's mind was allayed by this conversation.
2. But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession of him.
3. The crew tried to allay the fears of the passengers by announcing that the fire had been controlled.
4. This furious music allayed his dread and, leaning against the windowledge, he let his eyelids close again.
5. She was bien souffrante, and she was filled with vague dread, which only her husband's presence could allay.
2. But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession of him.
3. The crew tried to allay the fears of the passengers by announcing that the fire had been controlled.
4. This furious music allayed his dread and, leaning against the windowledge, he let his eyelids close again.
5. She was bien souffrante, and she was filled with vague dread, which only her husband's presence could allay.
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Meanings and Examples of ALLAY
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allay
v. lessen the intensity of or calm
v. satisfy (thirst)
Classic Sentence:
1 She was bien souffrante, and she was filled with vague dread, which only her husband's presence could allay.
2 Sam, with frantic ejaculations, made a dive at the reins, but only succeeded in brushing the blazing palm-leaf afore-named into the horse's eyes, which by no means tended to allay the confusion of his nerves.
3 At once he does his bidding; at once, for a god willed it, the Phoenicians allay their haughty temper; the queen above all takes to herself grace and compassion towards the Teucrians.
4 First in this grove did a strange chance meet his steps and allay his fears; first here did Aeneas dare to hope for safety and have fairer trust in his shattered fortunes.
5 He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.
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6 To allay it, I shall to-day search entire ship carefully from stem to stern.
7 Perhaps some inkling of this paradox, even in the unquiet days of the Bureau, helped the bayonets allay an opposition to human training which still to-day lies smouldering in the South, but not flaming.
8 The tumult of Elizabeth's mind was allayed by this conversation.
9 They were of sobering tendency; they allayed agitation; they composed, and consequently must make her happier.
10 This furious music allayed his dread and, leaning against the windowledge, he let his eyelids close again.
11 But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession of him.
12 Look at his head; them high forrads allays shows calculatin niggers, that'll do any kind o thing.
13 "I've been allays used to horses," said Tom.
14 Then his heaving breast allays its anger, and he says no more; but marvelling at the awful gift, the fated rod so long unseen, he steers in his dusky vessel and draws to shore.
15 The sad quiet grey-blue glow of the dying day came through the window and the open door, covering over and allaying quietly a sudden instinct of remorse in Stephen's heart.
Example Sentence:
1 The crew tried to allay the fears of the passengers by announcing that the fire had been controlled.