balm

Example Sentences

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All of that access can feel like a balm for the ever-embattled press, a deserved return to pride of place.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

The moon is right there on your phone now and that can be a fleeting balm for our troubled souls.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

"I sensed very early on that chess would be a balm to soothe my sorrow, my shield against life’s uncertainties," she writes.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

Blanck’s classes have been a balm for his students in this worst of years.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2025

Despite everything, I had to laugh, and gradually my own laughter began to affect me like a balm.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende