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How to use reassurance in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Reassurance means the feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled. Example: “We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.”

Examples of reassurance by meaning

nounThe feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.

  • But understood in the original sense of the Greek word apokálypsis, meaning “unveiling”, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025.2025 January 10, Peter Thiel, “A time for truth and reconciliation”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2025

nounThe act of confirming someone's opinion or impression.

  • "The PM’s private reassurances are worthless given her track record of u-turns and her clear desperation to cling to power."2017 June 11, “DUP leader hails 'good progress' with Theresa May”, in The Scotsman, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2025

More sentences with reassurance

  • We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.From the entry bromide
  • Swear?” Lily swore and pinkie-promised too, by way of extra reassurance.2021 September 17, Judith Woods, “The spa hotel to which my daughter and I owe our sanity”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph…. From the entry pinkie-promise
  • “Doesn't everyone call his doctor every week or two for reassurance about some worrisome symptom?”2000, Lee Baer, Getting Control (Revised Edition), →ISBN. From the entry worrisome
  • Anyone have any ideas of introduction, reassurances that the kitters won't eat the little bunnie?1996 September 13, rlaatsch, “Kitters and Bunnie??”, in rec.pets.cats (Usenet), retrieved 21 May 2022. From the entry kitter
  • Yet most twentieth-century narratives using the Oedipus myth lack these assurances and reassurances.1993, Debra Moddelmog, Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-century Fiction, page 113. From the entry deus ex machinas
  • The response was a brush-off dressed as reassurance.2026 July 29, Nicholas Muhoro, “Amy Billig Vanished While Hitchhiking Through Coconut Grove. Then the Calls Began”, in Skip Boring…. From the entry brush-off
  • He needed constant reassurances and was easily influenced by flattery.2017, Joe Wendel, Justice Denied: An Historical Sojourn, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry the bride at every wedding
  • Bradly was out of bed, blundering across the floor to kneel by her and pat reassurance on her satin-smooth shoulders.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 236. From the entry dithyrambic
  • There are gay men, for example, who grew up desperately needing reassurance that they were just as much a boy as any hypermanly heterosexual.2022 October 23, Pamela Paul, “Let’s Say Gay”, in The New York Times. From the entry hypermanly
  • Rosie's courage allowed her to engage with me quickly and soon provided reassurance to others in the system that I was safe and non-abusive.2017, “A New Therapist”, in Patricia Frankish, Valerie Sinason, editors, Holistic Therapy for People with Dissociative Identity Disorder…. From the entry system
  • The presence of a Pathfinder is a reassurance that a planet can be settled safely and with a high expectation of success.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Role of a Pathfinder Codex entry. From the entry pathfinder
  • It didn't help that here, even more than back home, the promise of justice was little more than reassurance for the weakminded.2006, Andrew Fish, Erasmus Hobart and the Golden Arrow, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry weakminded
  • “Does it look like this?” ¶ Ma’adrys drew back from the datapad until Geordi leaned over her shoulder to whisper a few words of reassurance.1997, Esther [Mona] Friesner[-Stutzman], chapter 5, in To Storm Heaven (Star Trek: The Next Generation; 46), published 1997, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry datapad
  • Despite Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris's reassurance that "the White Paper is coming" it was further delayed by the period of purdah that preceded local elections held on May 6.2021 June 2, “Network News: ‘Root and Branch’ Review Three Years in the Making”, in Rail, number 932, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer…. From the entry purdah
  • Rachel was on the phone in the drawing room, talking to Gerald in Westminster, and seemed to be getting the reassurances she needed; she was oddly placable.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 16, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 392. From the entry placable
  • “Take it easy” was the watchword of these superfriendly young men, the token of their overfamiliarity, the false reassurance that enabled them to ignore the filth they worked in.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry superfriendly

Meaning of reassurance

  1. noun The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.
  2. noun The act of confirming someone's opinion or impression.
  3. noun Reinsurance.

Full definition of reassurance

Questions about reassurance in a sentence

How do you use reassurance in a sentence?
Reassurance is used as a noun. For example: “We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.”
What is a short sentence with reassurance?
“The response was a brush-off dressed as reassurance.”
What does reassurance mean?
Reassurance means the feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.

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