Examples of heartwarming in a Sentence
The movie is a heartwarming story about a boy and his dog.
It's heartwarming to see how his neighbors have helped him.
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On Thursday, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen delivered one of the most heartwarming gestures of the NFL preseason by gifting not one but two Ryder Cup tickets to Nathan Forrestel, a Special Olympics athlete and golf influencer with cerebral palsy.
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Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
Hathaway returns to lead the film as journalist Andy, who was last seen quitting fashion magazine Runway and still landing a heartwarming referral letter from her former boss, editor-in-chief Miranda (Streep).
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2025
Video footage from the heartwarming moment shows 20-month-old Asher overjoyed when Maverick, a 2-year-old therapy dog, visited him.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2025
There’s an ongoing flashback—alternately heartwarming and bloodcurdling—that portrays the young Wash’s life in and escape from Barbados (Eddie Karanja plays the child counterpart to Kingsley Junior), to Virginia, then to farther north.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025
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Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
Hathaway returns to lead the film as journalist Andy, who was last seen quitting fashion magazine Runway and still landing a heartwarming referral letter from her former boss, editor-in-chief Miranda (Streep).
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2025
Video footage from the heartwarming moment shows 20-month-old Asher overjoyed when Maverick, a 2-year-old therapy dog, visited him.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2025
There’s an ongoing flashback—alternately heartwarming and bloodcurdling—that portrays the young Wash’s life in and escape from Barbados (Eddie Karanja plays the child counterpart to Kingsley Junior), to Virginia, then to farther north.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025
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“Heartwarming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heartwarming. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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heartwarming
adjective
heart·warm·ing
ˈhärt-ˌwȯr-miŋ 
: making one feel good inside : cheering to one's emotions
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