Example sentences for: comforting

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

  • Reed's more important contribution was to abandon the clear, if ferocious, principles that defined the '80s Moral Majority and replace them with a comforting fog of "family values."

  • Another group of names falls into the either-or category, in which a well-researched onomastic history could consign a family to either comforting averageness or ignominy.

  • Democrats say Republicans who accuse Clinton of wagging the dog are inadvertently aiding and comforting the enemy.

  • General Assembly, the president moved beyond vague generalities and into comforting platitudes as he discussed poverty (against it), health care for all people (for it), and outbreaks of widespread killing (should do something to stop them).

  • Trotter states that “the presence of the curandero, the soothing effect of the sweepings (touching), and the low-key monotone chant of the prayers produces in the patient a light trance state that is comforting and reassuring” (Trotter and Chavira 1997, 82).


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