consoling

[ US /kənˈsoʊɫɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒnsə‍ʊlɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. affording comfort or solace
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How To Use consoling In A Sentence

  • Tessa rolls her eyes, and actually has the nerve to pat me consolingly on the shoulder.
  • The word here rendered 'exhort' is found in Paul's writings as bearing special meanings, such as consoling, stimulating, encouraging, rebuking and others. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
  • Something inside me, possibly my instinct, tells me that I should comfort him, consoling him in any possible way.
  • The only consoling thought was that the bad weather now extended south down the coast and would hold the Columbia up too.
  • If I could only have been assured of their being dead, I should have felt satisfied; but I imagined I saw my dear mother in the cotton-field, followed by a merciless task-master, and no one to speak a consoling word to her! NARRATIVE OF WILLIAM W. BROWN, A FUGITIVE SLAVE.
  • Diana was treated with kid gloves when all she needed was some sensible advice, a cuddle and a consoling word.
  • Then she got over it and was the one consoling the people who visited her. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet her affections were all awake to enquire after her uncle; and when she heard that nothing could so much sooth him as her sight, all fear of his comments, all terror of exertion, subsided in the possible chance of consoling him: and Mr. Tyrold, who thought every act of duty led to chearfulness, sent to desire the carriage might fetch her the next morning. Camilla
  • Pete has been driven to such distraction lately he is now muttering about consoling himself by munching on a fine Alsatian steak.
  • He called a dragoon, who was riding in advance, issued a few orders and cautions relative to the comfort and safety of Singleton, and speaking a consoling word to his friend himself, gave Roanoke the spur, and dashed by the car, at a rate that again put to flight all the philosophy of The Spy
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