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How to use the word soothed in a Sentence?

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If you become capable of acknowledging their point of view, their stance, their hard line, people are typically soothed by this.

Lynn Zakeri

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

(Powell) really soothed the market’s concerns for now, as the Fed is extremely good at doing, and money is going back to the U.S., not that it ever really left.

Daniel Lam

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

At first, investors sold stocks after they reacted to the rising yen. But BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's comments at his post-meeting news conference somewhat soothed investor sentiment.

Hikaru Sato

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The ECB's stance to continue with stimulus measures soothed tension in the market.

Masaru Hamasaki

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of Heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Aeschylus

added by anonymous
12 years ago

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Ch 9

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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