Examples of “mollify” in a Sentence

verb To make someone's worry or distress feel less intense, or to offer them comfort.

• Her calm explanation helped mollify their concerns.
• The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification. — A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta’s Deficit Elimination Program (1997)

verb To calm someone down when they are angry and win back their favor.

• He tried to mollify the angry customer.