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

We’ll take our balm where we can find it, especially now.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

I will become fearful, scared, depressed, and then literally like a balm — B-A-L-M — going, “Stop that. Count your blessings.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

It was, and would be throughout the entirety of my time in the White House, a balm for my spirit, a way to momentarily escape my First Lady worries, my self-consciousness about constantly being judged.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama