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Example sentences for: soften

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.
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.
He also failed to soften his positions on Taiwan, Tibet, and human rights, which might have been one way of wooing Western governments.
In some cases the adjectives and nouns for ethnic groups are formally identical, as for example German, Swiss, or Russian . But to soften the ethnic term in such cases it can still be used adjectivally, as in the example already given or in: “A Russian guy once told me.
' " Lord Rees-Mogg said that "[t]he precedents under American law are that Microsoft will not be allowed to expand, or even retain, its present degree of monopoly," and he suggests that Gates take a leaf out of the book of John D. Rockefeller who, in his later years, consulted a public-relations firm and "took to giving out dimes to children in the street in order to soften his image as a hard-hearted businessman."