Example Sentences

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It was glorious, despite the fact that Barack’s head cold managed to return in full force, and also despite the mud baths, which we deemed to be unsoothing and kind of icky.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Perhaps he was aware of the fact, and because he knew that my damnation is inevitable his unsoothing preliminary was merely human.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

In awesome quiet of unsoothing sounds we feel, over a dual elemental motion, a quick fillip as of sudden lapping wave, while a shadowy air rises slowly in hollow intervals.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.

While ill, he felt how unsoothing were the kindest looks and tones of strangers.

From Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

She unveiled her eyes to natural history, and did not find flower or butterfly unsoothing.

From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary