soothe Examples

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Examples of soothe in a Sentence

Examples of soothe
1. I endeavoured to soothe. “You can't blame yourself.” “Yes, I can.” “It isn't your fault.” “I invited Wilbert Cream here.” “Merely from a wifely desire to do [your husband] a bit of good.”
2. He laid his hard, rough hand assuringly on the shoulder of the frightened child and sought to soothe her fears.
3. This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.
4. Tevez, however, may need to fine-tune his penalty-taking technique. In the 57th minute he had the chance to soothe any lingering nerves, when he ran clear from Kolarov's pass and again exposed the high line of Leicester's defence, only for Hobbs to hack him down. The centre-half was fortunate not to be shown a red card – a point Mancini made on the touchline – but Tevez aimed his penalty low and hard, straight down the middle, and Weale saved with his feet.
Examples of soothes
1. She soothes, but never can inthrall my mind. — Prior.
Examples of soothing
1. There is no eartly reason why I should dally with her in the margin of this sinister memoir, but let me say (hi, Rita—wherever you are, drunk or hangoverish, Rita, hi!) that she was the most soothing [ …]
2. soothing music
3. a soothing ointment
4. soothing words
5. The I.A.E.A. often couches its findings in soothing diplomatese.