encouraging

Example Sentences

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She guided Parker through questions he had while filling out applications, encouraging him to consider and emphasize his skills, needs and goals: “I felt that was better than letting him go blindly.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Tribe and fellow opener Ben McKinney made an encouraging start to the second innings, but McKinney's departure for 32 saw a steady fall of wickets as the Lions finished on 218-4 overnight.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Grant is soaking up the experience, and encouraging her younger teammates to, too: “‘Enjoy this, it’s so rare to be here’ … and, ‘Hey, we can do this, we can do it together.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

That is a bad omen, though it’s encouraging that Kavanaugh and Barrett didn’t sign onto it.

From Slate • May 23, 2026

Many of its most ardent supporters, having developed a convenient collective amnesia about their roles in encouraging the German eugenicists, renounced the movement altogether.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee