How to Use therapeutic in a Sentence

therapeutic

adjective
  • Gardening can be very therapeutic.
  • The thick sole is trendy, cute, and oh-so therapeutic on my tired feet.
    — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2024
  • That’s why playing her was very therapeutic in a lot of ways.
    — Ashley Garcia Lezcano, refinery29.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • If all this sounds more therapeutic than psychic, that’s not far from the truth.
    — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Repackaged as therapeutic and elite, psychedelics are the medicine of our time.
    — Noah Feldman, Star Tribune, 18 May 2021
  • It’s been very therapeutic for me.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Even this act may have a strong therapeutic effect.
    — Hannah Kerman, STAT, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Those pheromones are very therapeutic for the human brain.
    — Bill Hoogterp, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • For both of us, writing is that therapeutic thing that nothing else can match.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 25 July 2025
  • There's something therapeutic about being able to just scream at the top of your lungs.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 June 2021
  • Opening up about these things to each other is one of the fastest, most therapeutic ways to bond.
    — Josh Smith, Vogue, 28 June 2024
  • Oleksy said, for him, putting on workout clothes and then going for a run is therapeutic.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • But even with a sprightly air, our visit was no less therapeutic.
    — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2021
  • Every song is therapeutic, but the vibe def changes for certain songs.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 12 May 2025
  • 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
  • Dancing for me is just so healing and so therapeutic.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Our discussions can be very therapeutic for both of us.
    — Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
  • A lot of these stories are very medicinal and very raw and therapeutic for me.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Maybe clicking cows was somewhat therapeutic, for some of those who played it—and for some of those who miss it still.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
  • But there was no way to turn my father dying into a therapeutic fib.
    — Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The coroner found the amount of ketamine in his system to be a therapeutic amount.
    — Amir Vera, CNN, 30 June 2020
  • Tara Duggan look at all the ways the act of cooking can be therapeutic.
    — Layla Schlack, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 June 2021
  • Was making the show therapeutic for you?
    — William Earl, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • And what is access like to some of the therapeutic drugs that have been developed since the spring?
    — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Nothing like a little therapeutic scraping to wake you up and start your day.
    — Sam Woodward, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And then editing it back and forth with my coach and reading it out loud to her every week was very therapeutic.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 3 July 2025
  • Some of the pools are cool enough to safely soak in, meaning a therapeutic mud bath is in your future.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2026
  • You may be drawn to dwell on your fears right now, but pleasant distractions can prove therapeutic.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2021

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