Example Sentences

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In a statement the family said Iwan "will be deeply missed by everyone" and said the support they had received had been "comforting for the whole family".

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2022

Both women said it had been comforting to see the surveillance video of the Pinckney family arriving at church, the pastor holding his pony-tailed daughter’s hand.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2016

It had been comforting to think that the Neanderthals were inferior to modern humans—less clever or dexterous or communicative—and that that’s why they’re no longer around.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 12, 2015

One woman leaving Ste-Agnes church said the ability to memorialize lost ones had been comforting.

From Reuters • Jul. 13, 2013

Of course, he didn’t have Blink’s address, so there was nowhere to send it, but it had been comforting to write it somehow.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick