comforting

Example Sentences

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“It was just kind of one in that moment: She’s my mother and also my director that’s comforting me, helping me through the scene. It worked really well.”

From Los Angeles Times

It has enjoyed comforting support at the 50 day SMA since last summer.

From Barron's

Through the strange furless hide that smelt more of not-wolf than wolf, he could hear a comforting thump-thump, like the sound he heard when he clambered on top of his father for a nap.

From Literature

This is no easy mission, and “militarily manageable risk” won’t be comforting to Americans or energy markets if this goes sideways.

From The Wall Street Journal

He means to be comforting, I think, but the reference to how I’d come undone in front of him is more than I can take.

From Literature