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How to use encouraging in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Encouraging means giving courage, confidence or hope; auspicious. Example: “Although there is no cure for the disease yet, the research results are encouraging.”

Examples of encouraging by meaning

adjectiveGiving courage, confidence or hope; auspicious.

  • Although there is no cure for the disease yet, the research results are encouraging.
  • There are some encouraging signs of economic recovery.

adjectiveSupporting by giving encouragement: positively.

  • Your encouraging words inspired me to persevere.

More sentences with encouraging

  • Disability rights advocates are encouraging people to rethink the words "crazy" and "insane" as they stigmatize mental health.From the entry rethink
  • We should be encouraging and supporting expensive bi-mode freight locomotives, especially where capacity is constrained.2024 October 30, Paul Clifton, “How can freight be a major part of rail's future?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 57. From the entry encourage
  • Her voice is steady and encouraging as she repeats a phrase, which the children repeat back.2024 December 31, Theo Greenly, “A community’s fight to save Unangam Tunuu on St. Paul Island”, in KUCB. From the entry Unangam Tunuu
  • In future, hotels will have to evict anyone practising balconing or encouraging others to do so.2020 January 17, Stephen Burgen, “Balearic islands pass bill targeting boozy Brits abroad”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on…. From the entry practice
  • Let’s start today with our children, by encouraging them to always say that wonderful, magical word: please.2016 November 21, Bill O’Reilly, “About This Book”, in Bill O’Reilly, James Patterson, Give Please a Chance, London: Young Arrow, →ISBN. From the entry magical word
  • For approximately 30 years, the WDA was responsible for encouraging business development and investment in Wales.2014 October 22nd, Welsh Affairs Committee, International representation and promotion of Wales by UK bodies (HC 2014–15 337; Fifty-fifth…. From the entry IBW
  • Soon he was encouraging other newfags to “lurk moar,” or learn more on 4chan.2013, Olsen, Parmy, We are Anonymous, Back Bay Books, page 37. From the entry lurk moar
  • Rather than encouraging his countrymen to liberate their slaves, he opposed both private manumission and public emancipation.2012 November 30, Paul Finkelman, “The Real Thomas Jefferson: The Monster of Monticello”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2015. From the entry manumission
  • For the second time in a week, Wenger's team gave themselves an encouraging platform.2012 November 10, Amy Lawrence, “Fulham's Mark Schwarzer saves late penalty in dramatic draw at Arsenal”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry bulldoze
  • Encouraging men to caregive in their own way is a win-win for all.2010, Barbara Dunn, Linda Scott, Our Turn to Parent. From the entry caregive
  • Still, it's encouraging that Washington is finally getting the goods on the manipulators.2002 Sept. 26, "California Culprits" (editorial), New York Times (retrieved 22 Nov 2011). From the entry get the goods on
  • We are encouraging students to participate in a provincial queer youth talent search.1999 September 13, Bonte Minnema, “Letters: SAC [Students Administrative Council]’s stinginess surfaces”, in Andrew Loung, editor, The…. From the entry pride
  • These encouraging messages will guide you to the merciful heart of Jesus-Your Jesus of Mercy.1999, Gianna T. Sullivan, I Am Your Jesus of Mercy. From the entry Jesus of Mercy
  • Water temperatures can increase in summer and decrease in winter encouraging lethal anchor ice problems.1989, The Greater Yellowstone Postfire Assessment, Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, page 84. From the entry overstream
  • Garibaldi was moving among his men, encouraging them, telling them to rest before the last push.1987, Herman J. Viola, Susan P. Viola, Giuseppe Garibaldi, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry red shirt
  • This program recognizes members for reaching a level of demonstratability, while encouraging additional aerobatic proficiency.1978, Sport Aviation, page 16. From the entry demonstratability
  • Experience elsewhere since World War II is hardly encouraging to binational or multi-national concepts.1968, Don Peretz, “A Binational Approach to the Palestine Conflict”, in Law and Contemporary Problems, page 34, archived from the original…. From the entry binational
  • Octavius did not carry universal neighbourliness to the extent of encouraging prolonged wayside conversation.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry neighbourliness
  • It is not only the only enlightening, but the only encouraging view of life.1929, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Outline of the Fall”, in The Thing: Why I am a Catholic, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company…. From the entry Promethean
  • Then he would play with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness.1922, David Garnett, Lady Into Fox. From the entry sportiveness
  • Trump and his Magadonians actively encouraging and cheering a fellow supporter for an act of violence certainly registers as crazy.2025 August 21, Rodney Wallace Kennedy, “There’s a Crazy Index for Donald Trump”, in Dissenting from Donald Trump While Listening to “The…. From the entry Magadonian
  • They routinely followed up and visited households to encourage them to sustain safe sanitation practices through affirmative, encouraging conversations.2021 July, R. Iyer, J. P. Shukla, A. Verma, “Community Leave No One Behind: Lessons from a Pilot”, in Sanitation Learning Hub Learning…. From the entry Gandhigiri
  • However, a number of people defended the TV groom's portrayal on the Channel Nine show, encouraging him to ignore the negativity.2018 February 25, Caleb Taylor, “'He's just on the show to build his brand and himself': Fans hit out at Married At First Sight groom…. From the entry negative nancy
  • This practice helps you fight fatigue as it sets in, while at the same time not encouraging mispacing the event.2017, Jesse Kropelnicki, The Endurance Training Diet & Cookbook, page 41. From the entry mispace
  • I am encouraging them to invest in a new bedframe.2015, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 2962: Daily Life. From the entry love life
  • Encouraging work has recently shown the feasibility of creating bioorgans for the reconstruction of heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys.2015 August 2, J.-F. Stoltz et al., “Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Myth or Reality of the 21th^([sic]) Century”, in Stem Cells…. From the entry bioorgans
  • Fry, a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, has done extensive research on the physiological benefits of laughter with very encouraging findings.2013 November 29, Robert T. Muller, “LOL: How Laughter can Improve Your Health”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers…. From the entry gelotology
  • Despite encouraging noises made by politicians from time to time, the two sides there have never been further from an agreement.2012, Richard Oliver Collin, Pamela L. Martin, An Introduction to World Politics, page 425. From the entry noise
  • And there are also encouraging signs, too, that Chinese cities are beginning to shape urban development around public transport hubs.2012, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history, Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137. From the entry public transport
  • Wuddaya mean he wasn't encouraging the fappers?2012 September 28, SpaceMonkeyGleep, “Re: Who Says There's Nothing On TV?”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet). From the entry fapper
  • It was the grass-eaters, the commission found, that made corruption respectable within the organization, encouraging a code of silence among officers.2012, Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 50. From the entry grass-eater
  • Blackburn offered nothing going forward in the opening period and that continued after the break, encouraging City to flood forward.2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0 - 4 Man City”, in BBC Sport. From the entry flood
  • The war years proved encouraging to North Pomfret farmers, with additional demand and higher prices for their milk.2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010. From the entry dairy farming
  • Tata saw the aerocentric future as not just offering speedier and cheaper transportation but also encouraging greater international understanding and tolerance.2009, Lawrence R. Samuel, Future: A Recent History, page 70. From the entry aerocentric
  • He smiles and is going to say something encouraging.2007, Marilys Edwards, Keep The Home Fires Burning, AuthorHouse, page 187. From the entry strewth
  • He slapped his thighs and whooped and catcalled, encouraging anyone who knew it to join in the ‘traditional come-all-you’!2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury, published 2007, page 3. From the entry come-all-you
  • Help others around you use clean language by your example and by good-naturedly encouraging them to choose other words.2005, Eva Fry, Letters from Juvenile Hall: Kids Helping Kids, page 213. From the entry good language

Meaning of encouraging

  1. adjective Giving courage, confidence or hope; auspicious.
  2. adjective Supporting by giving encouragement: positively.
  3. noun Encouragement.

Full definition of encouraging

Questions about encouraging in a sentence

How do you use encouraging in a sentence?
Encouraging is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Although there is no cure for the disease yet, the research results are encouraging.”
What is a short sentence with encouraging?
“Wuddaya mean he wasn't encouraging the fappers?”
What does encouraging mean?
Encouraging means giving courage, confidence or hope; auspicious.

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