PACIFIER in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for PACIFIER, such as:

1. Have you had to help a child break a pacifier or thumb habit?
2. It pacified me, in fact, so much, that I did not raise an alarm.
3. Levin, guilty and shamefaced, but pacified, went back to his hotel.
4. Dentists criticize the practice of giving fussy children sweets to pacify them.
5. To pacify Mary, and perhaps screen her own embarrassment, Anne did move quietly to the window.

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 Meanings and Examples of PACIFIER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pacifier
 n.  rubber or plastic nipple or teething ring for a baby to suck or chew on
Classic Sentence:
1  Pearl, seeing the rose-bushes, began to cry for a red rose, and would not be pacified.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
2  Darya Alexandrovna meanwhile having pacified the child, and knowing from the sound of the carriage that he had gone off, went back again to her bedroom.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
3  Levin, guilty and shamefaced, but pacified, went back to his hotel.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 2
4  He had been unwilling to go to bed and had made a scene; whereupon she had taken charge of him and pacified him as well as she could.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIV
5  Haley stood there in very ill humor, having ridden hard the night before, and being not at all pacified by his ill success in recapturing his prey.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  It pacified me, in fact, so much, that I did not raise an alarm.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
7  At last Aniele succeeded in pacifying her, and she essayed the ascent; then, however, she had to be stopped while the old woman cautioned her about the floor of the garret.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  To pacify Mary, and perhaps screen her own embarrassment, Anne did move quietly to the window.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
9  Sir Henry had to assure him that it was not so and pacify him by giving him a considerable part of his old wardrobe, the London outfit having now all arrived.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
10  Meantime, Teta Elzbieta would go and beg, over in the Hyde Park district, and the children would bring home enough to pacify Aniele, and keep them all alive.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
11  But she could not pacify herself with these reflections; a feeling akin to remorse troubled her when she thought of her visit.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  Have you had to help a child break a pacifier or thumb habit?
2  Dentists criticize the practice of giving fussy children sweets to pacify them.