The canister coffee wasn't great and the steady march of comfortably familiar fact had grown hypnotic as I sat there.

The guest room had a comfortably familiar motel room smell to it.

The room seems comfortably familiar, perhaps because I can just remember a wringer-washer in my mother's basement much like the one against this wall.

There had been a comfortably familiar squabble between the two younger girls over who got the front seat.

Something about him was different, yet comfortably familiar.

He'd seen it a number of times before, and it was comfortably familiar.

Then we passed into a well-lighted neighborhood, and the scene around me became comfortably familiar.

They are comfortably familiar tunes, but she interprets them in an intensely personal way.

I figure, giving the phenomenon a comfortably familiar name, and children.

Much about the political scene in New Hampshire is comfortably familiar this year.