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

The Times thinks that passage of such legislation would soften Senate resistance to the treaty and help align industrial and environmental goals.
The female narrative voice serves a different purpose here than in traditional political campaigns, where it is sometimes used to soften negative spots.
The counterconspiracy theory is that Iraq's U.N. allies are fanning the conspiracy theory in order to soften or get rid of the inspections.
It's hard enough to work out a deal already, pundits observe, given that Democrats want to soften the censure resolution while Republicans want to stiffen it.
In addition, two pooled samples were made by mixing equal quantities of RNA from the kidney samples of patients 1 - 4 together, and by mixing equal quantities of RNA from the four RCCa samples also from patients 1 - 4. The frozen tissues were warmed briefly, allowing the OCT compound to soften slightly so that it could be rapidly dissected away without the tissues thawing.