comforter

Example Sentences

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After she was murdered as a young woman, Jill was, in her words, “elevated” to the role of a comforter, whose task is to aid the dying in their transition to the afterlife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

They married in the camp, and when they had a son, they named him Menachem, which means comforter or consoler in Hebrew.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

Have a down comforter ready when you watch.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2024

My limbs, clad in the comforter that is my post Labor Day inside outfit, are studded in goose flesh.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2023

When my alarm went off the next morning, I hid under the comforter.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez