had comforted
- past perfect of comfort.
Example Sentences
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I learned to regulate difficult emotions—sadness, anger, fear—much as I had comforted the wounded child alive within me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Love Island star Hughes, 32, had comforted Siwa, 21, in Wednesday's episode after Rourke's comments.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025
Roberts had comforted a team that could not play a home game because of a natural disaster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
It emerged that Abedi had comforted Al-Anezi, who had cancer, on his deathbed in January 2017 and missed a planned prison visit with Abdallah to attend Al-Anezi’s funeral.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2020
“I felt sad today,” he had heard his mother say, and they had comforted her.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
