put at rest

Example Sentences

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Taylor said his mind was put at rest at a cast dinner before shooting on the movie began.

From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2021

These rumors are automatically put at rest by the explicit announcement that he will follow tradition and run again.

From Time Magazine Archive

She considered the hearing "an absurd circus" and wanted to testify as soon as she was medically able "in order to put at rest false rumors, innuendos and outright lies."

From Time Magazine Archive

Now that this question is put at rest for ever, it is hard to conceive, the anxiety which it wakened in our forefathers.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis

Any doubts upon the subject were, however, soon put at rest by the enactment of a positive law.

From The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.