comforting
Example Sentences
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Baz gradually returned to the kitchen, starting with “comforting, tender and slow” meals like chicken bone broth and lentil soup.
It smells like Aunt Melissa’s lavender-and-mint shampoo, which is oddly comforting.
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She had her arms around Dawn's new calf, comforting it as it trembled at the sound of the Dragon.
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There was something comforting about the volume, even more so than the copy he had read a hundred times.
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In the morning, you may feel the sharpness of toothpaste, hear and feel water running in the shower, smell shampoo, and later take in the comforting scent of freshly brewed coffee.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.