Example sentences for: comforts

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

  • Sturdy forts protected the mountain passes, and though the remains of a bathhouse at Ravenglass suggest that creature comforts weren’t entirely lacking, life for the average Roman soldier was fairly harsh.

  • Cold Comforts

  • Placebos could be a bridge between the cold efficiency of modern medicine and the unscientific comforts of alternative therapies.

  • Her writing is "crisply entertaining" (Cynthia Crossen, the Wall Street Journal ), her ideas are "revolutionary … a manifesto in praise and defense of the home" (Susannah Herbert, the Chicago Sun-Times ), and the information is indispensable: "Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food" (Katy Kelly, USA Today ). The only negative comment critics can come up with is that on occasion "a schoolmarmish, admonitory tone creeps in" (Corby Kummer, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to buy the book.)

  • But by the end, he cannot imagine being loved by any human being at all and comforts himself with the pathetic idea that perhaps the fungus growing on the late-autumn soggy ground is offering him, in some spongy vegetable manner of its own, the acceptance he craves.


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