comfort
Example Sentences
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"I think it makes it less intimidating. When we're looking into the graves when they dig them, they are quite comforting, in a very strange way. They're very inviting."
From BBC
But in 2020, a braying satire of failure would be crass and too close to the reality we’re intent on tuning out; besides, we wanted the comfort of the familiar.
From Salon
Caring for him is so exhausting that she often retreats to “the comforting quiet” of the cell—which, in a perverse way, affords her a kind of homecoming to the country she left behind.
The sight of the moonlit barn, the shadowy oak, and the outline of Redhead Hill was a comfort.
From Literature
Sadako wanted so much to comfort him, but she didn’t know what to say.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
