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UK
/kˈʌmfətɪŋli/
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ADVERB
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in a comforting or consoling manner
one part of a strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar form
How To Use comfortingly In A Sentence
- She rubbed my arm comfortingly with a small twinkle of mischief that I had seen somewhere else.
- The sand, as Sam had said, was indeed, soft as powder and oozed cool and comfortingly through his bare toes.
- Furious with herself, she cut into the fruit cake, watching steam rise from its centre, and placed a comfortingly large slice on his plate.
- A new, comfortingly rich deal with EMI bucked them up no end, apparently.
- one part of a strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar form
- Comfortingly, as I type this, I can feel the whump of a helicopter circling overhead.
- On the way back, the sword bobbing comfortingly along my leg, I met te Kiore, buckling the polished sword-club at his side. The Gates of Noon
- John placed his hand on my shoulder comfortingly.
- Lovers of these stories — can we not call them addicts? — often note that part of their appeal lies in their comfortingly familiar atmospheres: Holmes and Watson's rooms on Baker Street, with the "gasogene" (whatever that is) and the Persian slipper filled with pipe tobacco, or Wolfe's townhouse on West 35th, with its kitchen on the first floor and its plant rooms on the roof. Now, Read it Again
- Perhaps their impression on the highly-calendared paper is a little pallid, but the comfortingly familiar, old-fashioned shapes and the clarity of outline and the quality of their casting do honour both to the punchcutter and to the typefounder. Netvouz - new bookmarks