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softening

How to use softening in a sentence

He thought of every softening influence of religion which over his own disciplined heart had power, but put them aside as useless.

RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL

After the softening, the quasi-reconciliation of the day before, his chagrin and disappointment were great.

Over her face there passed strange lights, strange tremors, a strange softening of the small indomitable mouth.

If it should prove to be softening of the brain, a melancholy interest will attach to the present document.

Paresis is what is sometimes called softening of the brain, and it attacks by preference men under thirty-five.

A late car roared down the long vista and fled, retreating in softening rumbles.

I regard these three victories, sir, as only beachheads, only the softening-up phases of a still greater campaign.

He looked upon her, softening; and then sat down and continued to admire the picture.

This does not usually quite keep pace with the softening; so the surface is covered with soil and other loose material.

And the softening twilight fell upon the doomed but unconscious cities.

FAIR TO LOOK UPONMARY BELLE FREELEY

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985