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

With that went the wishful thinking that had comforted Israel’s worried Western allies.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024

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

The former governor also spoke affectingly about how Biden — who still mourns the 2015 death of his son Beau — had comforted the Vilsacks’ son on the death of his daughter last year.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2019

I didn’t realize how it had comforted me.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd