How to Use cathartic in a Sentence

cathartic

adjective
  • And that's very fun and cathartic to do.
    — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That was very healing for me and cathartic.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
  • This thriller could be a, ahem, cathartic read for the jaded.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Rolling in the mud, to strike a piggy metaphor, can be cathartic.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Making this film felt very cathartic.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • There was something cathartic in that.
    — Junnelle Hogen, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
  • How cathartic can music be in the wake of a soul-sapping tragedy?
    — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 June 2017
  • This may be the most cathartic process of filmmaking for me.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 May 2026
  • In many ways, her story can be read as the cathartic last say of a survivor.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
  • There are no jump scares, slashings or cathartic screams and chases.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 4 July 2019
  • There’s something cathartic about reading about the end of the world.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes a big, cathartic cry is just what's needed to make it through a tough week.
    — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The song has been called life-changing, life-saving, and cathartic.
    — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2024
  • So getting to draw his neck is really cathartic for all of us.
    — Tracy Brown Producer, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • 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
  • Or that’s the goal, that a role could be actually cathartic for you.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Few spectacles are more cathartic than seeing them get knocked the hell out.
    — Ian Graber-Stiehl, The Root, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The climax is cathartic and transcendent enough to smooth over any flaws along the way.
    — N. K. Jemisin, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2015
  • Now, Boyd says auctioning off these items is a cathartic process.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The writing process was the most important and cathartic for me.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
  • By midnight at Doyle’s, the effect of the talk and the beer was cathartic.
    — Tracy Kidder, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • That’s easy and cathartic and contains just enough truth to be acceptable.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 Nov. 2020
  • But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 9 May 2018
  • Playing Kaylee, and being able to shed her at the end of the shoot, was cathartic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Yes, your life could use some adventure, some escape — a hearty laugh and a cathartic cry.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023
  • There’s something very cathartic about the violence of that scene.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Aug. 2019
  • That truth feels at least as cathartic, in its own gallows-wisdom way, as a big farewell party.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Instead, watching the crash proved cathartic.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026

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