How To Use Reassuringly In A Sentence
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His emblematic white mullet and gigantic cigar are reassuringly in place.
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No effect was observed on visceral sites of metastases, although reassuringly no trend toward an increase was identified.
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When she smiled reassuringly, he threw his head back and laughed, which confused her, but she didn't show it.
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This was a reassuringly lucid explanation.
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I confirm that Webster's Third defines epiphora as "watering of the eyes," a definition reassuringly similar to the first definition the OED gives for the same term.
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It's reassuringly stable, yet easily rocked to brace against side-waves.
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Theirs are reassuringly solid and made of natural cotton canvas.
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Buy a new car, and bask reassuringly in the knowledge that it is covered for a decade or 100,000 miles on all major mechanical components, plus the promise of roadside help over the next five years.
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The bright spring day shone reassuringly on columbine and starflower.
The Welkening
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Human speech flowed like bubbling liquid from his lips, reassuringly soft with no aggressive edge to it.
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I reached my good arm up to Alexei and he took my hand, clutching it reassuringly.
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There was something about the uniform that felt so reassuringly familiar.
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In the depth of the forest the primeval stillness was a bit awesome until a family of wild piglets moved in and started to root reassuringly through the chestnuts at my feet.
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The brother hl 2040 toner cartridge unnerving reassuringly donatist to the carduus of all megathere sheepcote with the kyrgyzstan of navigational blanketed midstream.
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The brother hl 2040 toner cartridge unnerving reassuringly donatist to the carduus of all megathere sheepcote with the kyrgyzstan of navigational blanketed midstream.
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‘There are elements of truth woven into this,’ he says, reassuringly.
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The resultant sheitels might be hard, shiny and unpersuasive, but they were reassuringly free from the whiff of idolatry.
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I am taken into another room and a careworn man in a reassuringly green smock and matching trousers comes in to inspect the thigh.
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His songs are often both hypnotic and reassuringly pleasant.
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It is as if they resent her forcing brutal reality down their throat, as if she has reneged on a deal that she'd always be reassuringly shallow.
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The JJ crew are reassuringly ambivalent to Britney Spears e.g. “fabulously chic” and Britney Spears are antonymous … ouch.
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So: the average such thrillertakes a handsome young virile protagonist, and a heroine notionally attractive according to the very limited logics of 'supermodels', and puts them through the paces ofa reassuringly familiar plot: set-up, small fight, increasing peril, climactic big conflagration.
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He heard the distress in Johanna's voice even through his own numbness, and tried to smile reassuringly.
This Way to Christmas
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His prices are reassuringly stratospheric and he knows how to flatter.
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For fans too fuddled by technology to get to grips with the membership scheme which allowed free downloads from the French band's website, this will be much more reassuringly old-fashioned.
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At this stage of the game, your manner should indicate to us that you will be a reassuringly familiar experience.
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On the contrary, she laid her head against Haso's massive shirt front and snivelled and gulped, while his great arms held her with a comfort which was reassuringly avuncular.
Paradise For Two
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With Jennsen reassuringly close by, Betty lay down beside Rusty, Jennsen's red roan mare.
NAKED EMPIRE
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Accompanying them was a reassuringly nonluminous piccalilli, in which every component crunched.
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Reassuringly the leaves are dressed correctly, by being turned with the slick of creamy sauce in a big stainless steel bowl.
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someone demanded, and Victor answered reassuringly, `We brought a busload of supplies.
THE WHITE DOVE
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She has always found this place, the Suburb of her youth and upbringing, reassuringly prosperous, luxuriantly safe, somehow uterine.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Scott Moore, the former England and St Helens hooker who was one of several players making their debuts for Widnes, was sent to the sin-bin after one of a number of scuffles in a reassuringly feisty "friendly".
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
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So pick up your light-guns, and your reassuringly non-ergonomic two-button controllers, and let's take yet another walk down a brightly lit and softly "bloop"ing memory lane.
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It is as if they resent her forcing brutal reality down their throat, as if she has reneged on a deal that she'd always be reassuringly shallow.
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That the photograph appears iconic not only contributes an aura of authenticity, it also seems reassuringly familiar.
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Although Gilbert and George are promoting a reassuringly pedestrian and unartistic view of art, Higgs and Noble nonetheless do them something of a disservice here.
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It is reassuringly simple both to drive and to fix but looks and feels like a proper racing car.
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the prime minister pointed reassuringly to the silence of the British press
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The therapist says reassuringly that it is a natural to have such curiosity and such wishes.
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This was a reassuringly lucid explanation.
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Though an'offshore'market, it was reassuringly familiar to Chinese fund managers and their clients alike.
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The face that stared back at her from the small mirror was reassuringly familiar, her expression faintly aloof and withdrawn, the cleverly tailored cut of her thick glossy hair making it fall in a smooth, controlled curve.
Passionate Relationship
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
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someone demanded, and Victor answered reassuringly, `We brought a busload of supplies.
THE WHITE DOVE
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
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His life is as reassuringly bland as his daily turkey - wrap lunch.
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The resultant sheitels might be hard, shiny and unpersuasive, but they were reassuringly free from the whiff of idolatry.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In Borken's messily vital urban context of supermarkets, small houses and traffic roundabouts, the bank's simple Euclidean form is a reassuringly calm, rooted presence.
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The reassuringly solid build and sleek finish make it feel that it really should cost more.
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They all seemed safe, unexcitable and reassuringly full of themselves.
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Despite the fame and the globetrotting, the couple's domestic existence is reassuringly familiar.
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He patted her knee reassuringly.
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The copier's footprint is reassuringly small, and it's no effort to move around with an unboxed weight of 9.95kg.
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Birds are not like this: blackbirds or goldfinches vary reassuringly little wherever you go.
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Playing old-school NES games is reassuringly awesome, but playing them in emulation at your computer is inauthentic and sometimes kludgey.
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
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There're a couple of cartoons and trite quotations on a noticeboard left over from the previous tenant but nothing reassuringly mine (except for the not inconsiderable mess).
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It's okay now," he said reassuringly.
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It is reassuringly simple both to drive and to fix but looks and feels like a proper racing car.
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This was a reassuringly lucid explanation.
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A chilled bottle of beer sits reassuringly on the table.
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Reassuringly simple in design but given a contemporary twist by modern detailing, the boxes can be wall-mounted, placed on wheels or used freestanding.
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So the place feels unpretentious, but in a reassuringly plush way.
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With over 400 episodes now under its belt, The Simpsons benefits greatly from the movie treatment, at once appropriately epic but satisfyingly modest; there isn't much in the film that hasn't already been touched on in some fashion beforehand, but The Simpsons Movie is perhaps most brilliant in finding that fine line between new and old, current and timeless, specific and universal, making its exploits at once reassuringly familiar and invigoratingly fresh.
The Simpsons Movie (2007): B+
