comforting

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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pulling one side was his anger and resentment of Maya-Jade, of everything, and pulling the other side the small, comforting swell of warmth the words doing well had kindled within him.

From Literature

It was also good, and surprisingly comforting, to have their company.

From Literature

But there was nothing comforting about its appearance.

From Literature