Example sentences for: conciliatory

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

  • An article welcomes Iranian President Mohammed Khatami's conciliatory comments but notes that it's still anti-American mullahs who really control Iran's military and government.

  • This story also makes the fronts at USAT and the NYT , but the latter emphasizes the U.N.'s decision Monday night to extend sanctions despite Richardson's conciliatory remarks.

  • The NYT says Yeltsin made his stunning announcement in a "surprisingly folksy and conciliatory speech," while WP says the speech was made by a "stiff-looking" Yeltsin, and the LAT says he was "grim."

  • The conciliatory policies that painfully emerged after the bloodshed brought the Protestant Prince of Navarre to the throne as Henri IV (1589–1610), but not before he promised to convert to Cathol­icism.

  • He presented himself as the religious right's new face--smiling, civil, conciliatory.


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