set at ease

Example Sentences

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The relatively short break for the members, however, has set at ease investors and fans alike.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2022

The minds therefore which they set at ease, are only those of impenitent criminals and malefactors, and which, to the good of mankind, should be in perpetual terror and alarm.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various

The young woman, set at ease by her glances and that peace which true symmetry inspires, continued her way, averting her head with calculation, but he felt sure that she was not offended.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre

His mind, we are told, was now set at ease with regard to Southern affairs; his spirits, so long jaded by his harassing tramps about the Carolinas, were again lifted up by his augmented strength.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

And the host omitted no formula of politeness that had ever been used by a son of the Arabs to felicitate and set at ease an honoured guest.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William