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

Guadalupe Rosales layers her archival work onto pleasure and freedom today, as was seen in this vibrant exhibition, offering a welcome balm during another period of outsized social distress.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Tears were sliding down from behind the half-moon spectacles into the long silver beard, and the pride and the gratitude emanating from him filled Harry with the same balm as phoenix song.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling