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How to use the word soothing in a Sentence?

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With forgiveness, we find release, A soothing balm that grants us peace, For in its grace, we learn to let go, Embracing healing's gentle flow.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
9 months ago

Those types of self-soothing strategies can be really helpful, and you do that until you're ready to return to bed.

Wendy Troxel

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There is something so magical and mysterious about the ocean -- sitting on a shore and staring at the sea can be incredibly soothing to a grief-stricken heart, i think to know that her name [ Ruby's ] has been handwritten on a surfboard, by someone who never knew her, alongside the names of so many others, would be incredibly comforting to her.

Emma Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We do not know whether the observed behavior involves empathy, we know that it may qualify as prosocial behaviour, meaning it may increase the welfare of another animal -- feeling better via the social attention and caring, or via substances in the saliva-insect mix that may be soothing or anti-inflammatory. There are examples of chimpanzees adopting and rescuing other chimpanzees, which may involve empathy.

Simone Pika

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were able to take her into the gallery after hours and show her the Matisse exhibit, which coming from a mother who's raised me in the arts, it was soothing balm, matisse was soothing balm last night.

Janelle Kidman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nature: I believe nature has both a destructive side and a healing side. Nature can bring disasters like tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes and more. These disasters can cause fear, trauma, destruction, death and suffering. However nature also has a soothing side, a healing side, the mountains, oceans, lakes, trees, flowers, waterfalls, medications etc can calm and help the body, they can make you more relaxed, they can give you peace and when your at peace you function better. Nature can give you a death sentence, it can treat you and it can sometimes cure you.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

But it hasn’t unnerved markets because we’ve heard a lot of soothing words from the U.S. Federal Reserve that any rise in inflation is temporary.

Fiona Cincotta

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

David Deutchman was a very soothing presence to our children, david Deutchman would always be there to cuddle the child when the parents or family couldn't be there.

Joanna Slade

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.

Ry Cooder

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

If you can get your cat used to being groomed, combed, brushed, play with their feet a little bit, that's really important, especially when they're going to go to the veterinarian, you don't want cats that are fearful and don't want to be touched, so grooming helps. That's very soothing to cats.

John Howe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You have a Fed that's less interested in being a soothing nanny.

Kristina Hooper

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Farming can be very soothing. You are growing something, creating, the class really inspires and motivates [ the veterans ].

Lauren Brettschneider

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Eddie was having a lot of problems at that time, after they got married, he had drank too much, he had done too much. They went from the church to the reception. It was a beautiful mansion with wonderful people, but I couldn’t find Eddie. I couldn’t find Valerie. So I went looking for them and found them in the bathroom upstairs… Valerie was soothing him. It was certainly understandable. It didn’t impact their marriage. It certainly didn’t dictate the way things might turned out.’ The marriage lasted for almost two decades until their divorce in 2007, but the band was crumbling much sooner than that. There were mountains of cocaine and ever-flowing booze involved, but Van Halen was also led by a flamboyant singer with a fearsome Jekyll and Hyde personality. David Lee Roth in London. (Courtesy of Noel Monk).

Noel Monk

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I particularly enjoy a soothing walk on Lugard Road, Victoria Peak. Sections of the path are on the cliffside, meaning it offers the best views of the Hong Kong skyline.

Charlie Stewart-Cox

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Only once in a while you become aware of your intrinsic nature, with sudden bursts of empty spaces, without any effort on your part, you come home, rejoice every breath so deep and so soothing, you relax, unfocused, you skip into timelessness. This is the greatest mystery, the greatest gift of existence, without any identification to your senses, no clutches of your old patterns of mind. Few Glimpses of Heaven on the earth! I have experienced, have you?

Ramana Pemmaraju

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
7 years ago

We may perceive silence as hell or feel it as stilled happiness that brings us into harmony with our individuality. Some atoms or particles of sounds can, nonetheless, coincide with silence and create a mood of soothing relief. So, can the gentle roaring of the waves induce calmness and open another dimension to a cosmic experience. (“Sounds of silence”)

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Icing the area immediately following treatment is key--cold milk compresses are amazingly soothing, popping an Aleve or ibuprofen can decrease swelling and redness, but avoid Tylenol.If the redness lasts for longer than a few hours, be sure to tell your doctor so they can be more conservative with the settings at your next session.

Whitney Bowe

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The U.S. raising rates would trigger fresh fears of capital flight, so leaving the rates unchanged is positive, though mildly, regulators' softening stance in the clean-up of illegal margin financing is also market-soothing. The market had expected an end-September deadline, but obviously, it's not the case.

Yang Hai

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Gradualism for rate increases is a soothing message for the market, september remains on the table, but the downward drift in the forecasts for next year means the increases will happen gradually, and that's a relief for investors.

Alan Gayle

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It strips away the branding which draws people to the pack, removes any false reassurance that features like pastel colors and soothing descriptors are designed to provide, and makes the health warning more prominent.

Gerard Hastings

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Jerome K. Jerome

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Madonna

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

Joan Didion

added by anonymous
10 years ago

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.

William Wordsworth

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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