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Example sentences for: heartening

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

We thank everyone who resubscribed, sight unseen, and especially those who enclosed heartening notes, made helpful suggestions, and, in general, cheered us on.
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.
He recalled some operational data on the FBI, and remembered thinking it was heartening that 70 investigations were under way.
It has been heartening to see some of my fellow survivors of mid-'70s adolescence (post-Vietnam, post-Watergate, pre-punk, pre-Reagan) finally clear their heads of all the drugs and bad music and put those "lost" years into perspective.
Snow has been falling regularly for several weeks, heartening those wishing for a traditional white Christmas.