Example Sentences

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It was affirming — textural, temperature-driven, a flavor experience unlike any other.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

"It was affirming for us to have someone of Miriam's standing take an interest in Tasmania's transformation," Croome tells the BBC.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2022

For Orlando, which badly needed a scoring fulcrum after ranking in the bottom 10 in offensive efficiency for the past 10 seasons, the contrast was affirming.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2022

With every book, with every question, with every overt display of ambivalence and disgust, he was affirming to us that we were contenders.

From New York Times • May 24, 2018

She ought to think of the father: she was not alone in the world as she was affirming: besides her own family, she had her husband.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster