soother

Example Sentences

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The Consumer Product Safety Commission said in June that infants should never sleep in inclined products, like rockers, soothers or swings, because of the risk of suffocation.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2023

New York–based dermatologist Dhaval Bhanusali offered this tidbit about hand creams: “Neutrogena Norwegian Hand cream is pretty much universally loved by all dermatologists” because it has its skin soothers.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2018

In a sphere encrusted with suck-ups, soothers, and self-puffery, Ms. Tanden has emerged as a loyal but insistent straight-talker and acute assessor of Mrs. Clinton’s stubbornness and weaknesses.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2016

Nostrums, patent medicines . . . stomach and head soothers . . . speak their own brand of falsehoods . . . through joke and jingle.

From Time Magazine Archive

So guileless and holy, Such soothers of strife, What could we without them, Sweet flowers of life?

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various