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Example sentences for: comforted

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

There was a Vivien who could be comforted by sharing her confusing name with a major star, Vivien Leigh.
Music with a clear and steady beat, much like the lullabies that comforted them as infants.
Overlooking President Clinton's visit to Russia this week, the Pioneer of India ran an editorial Monday about his "homecoming" to Washington after his vacation in Martha's Vineyard, saying he is sure to be comforted by Robert Frost's lines "Home is the place where, when you have to go there,/ They have to take you in."
(Do those officials think taxpayers will be comforted by the idea that they thought a $165 million mission might flop?)
One of the beauties of the Oxford English Dictionary (and of, say, A Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme) is that users are comforted by quotations from sources that are acknowledged paragons of English usage, writers like Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Scott, etc., even Hemingway.