How to Use cathartic in a Sentence

cathartic

adjective

• By midnight at Doyle’s, the effect of the talk and the beer was cathartic.
  — Tracy Kidder, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• Rolling in the mud, to strike a piggy metaphor, can be cathartic.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
• Playing Kaylee, and being able to shed her at the end of the shoot, was cathartic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• How cathartic that would be for Dorrell against the team that sacked him in 2007.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• The result: a cathartic yawp for bandmates and fans alike.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• How cathartic can music be in the wake of a soul-sapping tragedy?
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 June 2017
• The writing process was the most important and cathartic for me.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
• In many ways, her story can be read as the cathartic last say of a survivor.
  — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
• The game proved to be a cathartic outpouring of support for the Bills and Hamlin.
  — Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
• But that wouldn’t be nearly as cathartic as a sword fight.
  — Douglas Watson, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2022
• That scene proved cathartic, but fear roiled and rumbled inside of her with each line of the script.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2021
• The whole process has been cathartic for me and, from what others have posted, for them as well.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• The climax is cathartic and transcendent enough to smooth over any flaws along the way.
  — N. K. Jemisin, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2015
• The song has been called life-changing, life-saving, and cathartic.
  — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2024
• Sometimes a big, cathartic cry is just what's needed to make it through a tough week.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 29 Sep. 2020
• And the screams of a neighborhood, in a cathartic release of frustration and stress, cut through the night air.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2022
• There’s a sort of common chord, a thread that runs through all of our lives, and sometimes these songs can be cathartic.
  — Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
• Or that’s the goal, that a role could be actually cathartic for you.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• There was something almost cathartic about it in a way.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 9 May 2018
• Plenty of customers clearly felt the cathartic need to vent; the doll is pin-stuck from head nearly to toe.
  — John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2022
• The move to Corvallis has proven to be cathartic for Uiagalelei, much like those strolls with Pritchard around town.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
• It’s so cathartic, having all those emotions come out of your body.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• In all honesty, the media tour was a little bit cathartic.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2018
• But this one was different and felt cathartic on both sides.
  — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 23 Nov. 2021
• There’s something very cathartic about the violence of that scene.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Aug. 2019
• Even without being in the same place, Leigh and Dane's return marked a cathartic moment for fans of the show.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
• Anderson said the sound of water can be very cathartic to people.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2026
• This may be the most cathartic process of filmmaking for me.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 May 2026
• Lee slid in safely with a head-first slide to tie the game at two apiece, letting out a cathartic roar towards his dugout from his knees.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 15 May 2026