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

Bill Kristol says Bennett is speaking for other conservatives who worry that Gingrich's image is so tattered, he's being forced to soften his partisan edge.
If adjectives soften ethnic terms, nouns can harden them.
Large-volume enemas that work by distending the colon to induce peristalsis and soften are not well tolerated by debilitated patients.
And while a more moderate social policy may emerge in Iran, the country's resistance to a U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is unlikely to soften.
But the senators would soften the benefit cuts by offering workers a shot at higher private sector returns.