How to Use therapeutic in a Sentence
therapeutic
adjective- Gardening can be very therapeutic.
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The thick sole is trendy, cute, and oh-so therapeutic on my tired feet.
— Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2024 -
If all this sounds more therapeutic than psychic, that’s not far from the truth.
— Alix Strauss, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022 -
Because art is supposed to heal and it’s supposed to be therapeutic is the best way to put it.
— Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023 -
Opening up about these things to each other is one of the fastest, most therapeutic ways to bond.
— Josh Smith, Vogue, 28 June 2024 -
That’s why playing her was very therapeutic in a lot of ways.
— Ashley Garcia Lezcano, refinery29.com, 2 Aug. 2022 -
The project is therapeutic for Joseph, as he’s used it to embrace his fears and work through growing pains.
— Cydney Lee, Billboard, 17 Feb. 2023 -
Usher told me that skating has been therapeutic for him amid the pressure of the past few years.
— Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023 -
Perhaps the above makes this sound like some bleak therapeutic parable, and who doesn’t hate that crap?
— Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2023 -
A lot of these stories are very medicinal and very raw and therapeutic for me.
— Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2023 -
And some in the health care field believe the answer to some of those struggles could lie in the therapeutic use of psychedelics and drugs like ketamine or MDMA.
— Anne Sraders, Fortune, 11 May 2022 -
Yet none of the public therapeutic programs that the district referred him to had space.
— Melissa Petro, Time, 3 Nov. 2022 -
On one of the first nights at home, Erica’s best friend visited to apply therapeutic face masks to pass the time.
— Andrew Chapman, Longreads, 18 Apr. 2024 -
The therapeutic space should feel safe and should be a place where your teen can express themselves, reflect on their feelings and thoughts, and learn new ways to cope.
— Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 2 Dec. 2024 -
Taking time away from the stage to grieve, Craig found that woodworking was therapeutic.
— Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2022 -
Blowen also knows that rules are rules and that drugs, therapeutic and otherwise, are dragging down the sport.
— New York Times, 6 May 2022 -
Talk to a healthcare provider before using the herb for a therapeutic purpose.
— Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 24 Mar. 2024 -
The 40-seat shop will also be accented by a therapeutic salt cave and the sale of art and furniture made by locals.
— Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023 -
For some Ukrainian women who have lost their partners in the war, painting has offered a therapeutic way to cope with grief.
— Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023 -
If Larry David grabbed Rainbow Brite and beat the 💩 out of her, that would actually be therapeutic for me.
— James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024 -
After a while, hearing the carriage shift back and forth began to feel soothing and therapeutic.
— Dominique B. Fluker, Women's Health, 25 Mar. 2023 -
For the left, the silence has been anything but therapeutic, even enraging.
— Constant Méheut Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 18 July 2023 -
What was promised to be therapeutic ended up disastrous for his son, Matt Maritz said.
— Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2024 -
The light has a therapeutic effect on the body’s internal clock, making people less prone to the impact of shorter days.
— Alina Dizik, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022 -
Looks like one of medicine’s greatest therapeutic tools just got a major upgrade.
— Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2023 -
The couple said the event was therapeutic and necessary to make everyone feel safe.
— Washington Post, 4 May 2022 -
Kouri's mother, Lisa, says writing the book was therapeutic.
— Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2024 -
Art was always therapeutic for me, and this time was no exception.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2023 -
Throwing an ax felt therapeutic and natural to Rohaly, and the sport became a healthy outlet in her life.
— Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022 -
Meanwhile, the therapeutic language and traumatic topics at which critics such as Atlas had looked askance in the nineties found more intense and widespread expression with social media.
— Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
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