Julia kept her hand moving on his skin in a soothing way as she said: "Perhaps she can't do anything else.

Granny patted her in what she hoped was a soothing way.

"Just calm down, little girl," he said in a soothing way, his arms around me more supportive and comforting than intimate.

He was trying to be reassuring in his soothing, mechanical-man way.

The room fell silent, in a soothing, companionable way.

Nadine really did have a soothing, kind way about her.

Everyone he saw at the clinic seemed that way, soothing and helpful.

He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way.

And it was effective, in a strangely soothing way.

"It'll all straighten out," my mother said in her soothing way.