Example sentences for: balm

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

  • In that famous poem, Keats rubs autumn with the balm of his moistened language: "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,/ Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun ..."

  • I loved his New Yorker . The prose it contained--the gray stuff around the cartoons--was balm for the soul: unfailingly clear, precise, logical, and quietly stylish.

  • And the sympathetic voice of a paperback travel companion, even one as chatty as Frommer's, can be quite a balm on those lonely train rides when no one else in your compartment speaks your language.

  • His drink has, in fact prompted the lemon washing up liquid category into which we should put oddities like Tiger balm, Manila envelope, French kiss, Chinese burn.

  • As befits the day, the papers are relatively quiet, finally getting to lead with the cold-snap set-pieces they've been denied by months of balm.


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