softening

How To Use softening In A Sentence

• Better to wait until bubbles burst and manage the consequences, softening the economic blow by loosening monetary policy very quickly.
• You, young man,” she proceeded, addressing Roland Graeme, and at once softening the ironical sharpness of her manner into good-humoured raillery, “you, who are all our male attendance, from our Lord High Chamberlain down to our least galopin, follow us to prepare our court.” The Abbot
• He and Gross also want to find other genes involved in fruit softening in hopes of further improving firmness or viscosity.
• In the past it has refused to interfere in the country 's internal affairs but may be softening its position. Times, Sunday Times
• Evidence of a recent softening of the British economy also could weaken tax receipts. Times, Sunday Times
• It is as if the rigidity of the object were at war with a softening, playful freedom.
• On the accounting and software loggia not from stark softening thevetia, but from an unary, yet acetic nihau of unappreciated aglow lexicostatistics. Rational Review
• The second item of news went some way towards softening the blow of the first.
• In cerebritis, or inflammation of the interior of the brain, there is a tendency to softening and suppuration and the formation of abscesses. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• Those bruising experiences have led to a softening of their approach. Times, Sunday Times