softening

How To Use softening In A Sentence

• 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
• It is, in my judgment, a very laudable course of some churches, that use, for the next three days together, to desire the congregation to join in earnest prayer to God for the opening of the sinner's eyes, and the softening of his heart, and the saving of him from impenitency and eternal death. The Reformed Pastor
• 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.