heartening

Example Sentences

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To the audience, it’s a heartening buddy dramedy about two boys choosing to forge a brighter path and quickly realizing they make each other better people.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Also heartening to Wall Street, Southwest’s outlook for the current quarter included impacts from the severe winter storm that swept the U.S. over the weekend.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

At the corner of Lake and Mariposa in Altadena, two restaurants — Betsy and Miya — are heartening signs of life just a few hundred feet apart.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

It was heartening to know that airline employees, albeit powerless, know about able-bodied passengers gaming system to skip the lines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

It was heartening, he said, that she would go to university in Igboland since she had lived her whole life in the west.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie