Example sentences for: allay

How can you use “allay” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He uses it even more than bona fide Christian-right pols do, as Fred Barnes points out, in order to allay suspicions that he may be moderate or indifferent on social issues.

  • However, the strength of those societies and their essential role in the communities they serve are precisely what should allay fears about the revenue-eroding effect that some argue would plague societies if they converted their traditional subscription-based journals to open access.

  • [ 11 ] Older children often are given the opportunity to learn about hypnosis outside of their parents' presence in order to minimize their anxiety about successful performance, or to allay concerns about parental interference.

  • Early modern English used car poetically for the chariots of the sun and planets, as in Milton's image of a maritime sunset in Comus: And the gilded car of day / His glowing axle doth allay / In the steep Atlantic stream.

  • Cyrtocymura cincta ) is used in Trinidad as an aphrodisiac and against witchcraft [ 52 ] . Vernonia species are used worldwide to stop bleeding, allay inflammation and in the treatment of stomach aches, asthma, intestinal parasites and for protection against snakebites [ 51 132 133 134 82 92 135 ] . The use of Vernonia scorpioides for mange has been recorded [ 50 ] . Vernonia scorpioides aerial parts and flowers and leaves of Vernonia megaphylla (syn.


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