Example sentences for: heartening

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

  • USA Today leads with news that might be heartening for many users of the now withdrawn diet concoction Redux: a new study suggests that short-term use of the drug is not associated with an increase in heart valve problems.

  • He recalled some operational data on the FBI, and remembered thinking it was heartening that 70 investigations were under way.

  • More heartening was the revelation in both papers that a white woman famously captured in a 1957 photograph cursing the entering black students was present to publicly apologize for her long-ago actions.

  • The most heartening news from the younger generation this year (apart from the popularity of South Park ) is that they're smoking in ever greater numbers.

  • On a site dedicated to "greedy" associates, it is heartening to see so much discussion about some very non-greedy subjects such as pro bono.


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