HEALING in a Sentence

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A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEALING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
healing
 a.  curative; natural process by which the body repairs itself
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
2  What exhausted her was the sight of Bea and Olaf turned into flaccid invalids, uncomfortably flushed after taking food, begging for the healing of sleep at night.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  In three months Kennicott made seven thousand dollars, which was rather more than four times as much as society paid him for healing the sick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  The healing waters will never bring the dead Hurons to life," returned Uncas, in the music of the Delawares; "the tumbling river washes their bones; their men are squaws: their women owls.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
5  A single look was sufficient to apprise the pretended leech that the invalid was far beyond his powers of healing.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
6  She had some fine old paintings; one, in particular, of Jesus healing a blind man.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  The woman, whom long practice with the victims of brutality had made familiar with many healing arts, went on to make many applications to Tom's wounds, by means of which he was soon somewhat relieved.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  Aunt Polly paused, perplexed, and Tom looked for healing pity.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  But she never suspected that she was not an angel of healing and the balm of Gilead in disguise, to the suffering neighbors.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  The peaceful face reflected somewhat of peace and healing into his own spirit, and his thoughts wandered away to bygone times and dreamy memories.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  Between these two proud persons, mother and son, there is a wider breach than before, and little hope of its healing, for they are one at heart, and time makes each more obstinate and imperious.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
12  Again she repressed the tears that had begun to flow; and, putting out her trembling hand, and touching Mr. Peggotty, as if there was some healing virtue in him, went away along the desolate road.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
13  Boxer's split hoof was a long time in healing.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
14  By way of healing the rusty fester of the poisoned dart she sought the face that all day long she had been seeking.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
15  Youth is the season for prompt welding and the rapid healing of scars.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  According to local lore, the water has healing properties.
2  They are transfigured by the healing powers of art.
3  This enables the healing process to continue uninterrupted.
4  The medical establishment is taking healing increasingly seriously.
5  I don't have any open wound healing is slaughtered,nobody knows my heart setbacks.
6  The wound on my arm has healed.
7  Though the wound be healed yet a scar remains.
8  Within six weeks the bruising had gone, but it was six months before it all healed.
9  The wound has not yet healed.
10  When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
11  When the wound is healed, the pain is forgotten.
12  The trauma of divorce can often be healed by successful remarriage.
13  After the incision is healed, he can resume normal activities, but should avoid contact sports unless he has special permission from his doctor.
14  It took three months for my arm to heal properly.
15  A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless.