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Example sentences for: softening

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This week, the Star runs a two-page "Star Style Special" cover story ("Shania: I'm not beautiful") that claims to have all the dirt on country superstar Shania Twain's "secret flaws" and what she's doing "to make herself perfect," including using a skin ointment meant for softening cows' udders.
The European press was softening up public opinion Monday for airstrikes against Serbia with gung-ho editorials and grueling eyewitness accounts of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo.
Germany, which has the largest economy and the strongest currency in the group, was supposed to lead the way, but recently German unemployment has jumped to levels not seen since the Weimar Republic, and the mark is softening.
There seems to be a kind of semantic quality that makes adjectives softer and gentler than nouns and makes of them softening agents.
In Albania, the independent daily Koha Jone described it Thursday as "one of the most interesting developments in the Kosovo crisis since the start of the NATO airstrikes" and part of a Milosevic "peace offensive" for softening up the allies.