creature comfort

Idioms

Something that contributes to physical comfort, such as food, clothing, or housing. For example, Dean always stayed in the best hotels; he valued his creature comforts. This idiom was first recorded in 1659.

Example Sentences

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Name a creature comfort you’ve gotten used to even though you know it makes you kind of a brat.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

In a nod to Disney, the film did show her indulging in the creature comfort of a hot spring bath.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020

Thinking before you speak, that natural pause, turns out, for stutterers, to be a creature comfort they can’t always afford.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2019

By Some people have a thermal machismo when it comes to enduring a heat wave, but they don't understand that air conditioning is more than a creature comfort.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2012

Had they not every creature comfort that heart could wish?

From In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism by Stables, Gordon

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