Sentences with cushion
cush·ion
C c - ...a velvet cushion.
- The company provides a styrofoam cushion to protect the tablets during shipping.
- However, while the strategy helps cushion downward moves on the market, it often underperforms in rising markets.
- The cliche of floating on a cushion of air becomes reality with magnetic.
- The steering wheel has an energy absorbing rim to cushion the driver's head in the worst impacts. [VERB noun]
- They said Western aid was needed to cushion the blows of vital reform. [VERB noun]
- ``They threw punches back like any Australian team does but we managed to cushion those blows and then come back even harder.
- As nice a story as it is, there is no mention of the all-important tub of water necessary to cushion the impact of the falling lead.
- Housing benefit provides a cushion against hardship. [+ against]
- The bush cushioned his fall
- The main function of springs is to cushion the impact of a load.The engine is cushioned against shock and vibration by rubber mountings.Something that cushions a part or object when it hits something protects it by reducing the force of the impact.
- The chair and sofa have large comfortable cushions.I arranged some soft cushions on the chairs.The chairs have linen covers and silk cushions on top.
- “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”
- Wisla made a bright start to the second half and Fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer was twice called into action, first saving Gervasio Nunez's deflected 20-yard effort and then smothering Gargula's free-kick. But Fulham soon had the cushion of a third goal after more outstanding build-up play.
- To cushion a sofa
- To cushion a blow
- His inheritance was a cushion against unemployment.
- To cushion the blow to his pride.