comforted

IPA: kˈʌmfɝtɪd

Examples of "comforted" in Sentences

The public felt comforted that such an officer was really on the British side.
"Let Me Down Easy" is a phrase that comforted Joel Siegel, the ABC film critic who died of cancer in 2007.
I was reminded of the time I truly understood what Robert Frost meant when he said "I have been one acquainted with the night" and how that phrase comforted me.
But the worst of it is, that in such afflictions as yours is, the idea of ever becoming comforted is altogether loathsome, and so, my darling, I can do you no good.
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere] I cannot be united with him and move in the same _sphere_, but _must be comforted_ at a distance by the _radiance_ that shoots _on all sides_ from him.
Your choir-preaching was a form of feel-good masturbation, and you could remain comforted by the fact that the people who didn’t get your obscure message were idiots who you didn’t want on your side anyway.