How to Use therapy in a Sentence

therapy

noun
  • He is undergoing cancer therapy.
  • Martha would be the first to tell you she's never been to therapy.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Pets on Wheels brought six therapy dogs to greet the students.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 28 Aug. 2023
  • They can be used for hot or cold therapy to soothe aches and pains.
    — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But there’s a surefire way to add a spark of joy and warmth to your life: a touch of retail therapy.
    — Kat Romero, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But the first day of therapy went well, according to the GoFundMe.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Davis told reporters in New York, adding that the sport cannot serve as his therapy.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 28 Feb. 2025
  • And that topic is the use of psychedelics in mental health therapy.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 28 July 2022
  • Treatments vary and depend on the case and goals of therapy.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 5 July 2024
  • There’s a lot of vocal therapy, at least four times a week.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2024
  • And nothing kills the joy of retail therapy like the fear of not being able to make ends meet.
    — Lindsey Leake, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Walking can be a form of therapy for those who have the option.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
  • In short, hair oil can be regarded as a dose of scalp and hair therapy that will improve the look and health of the hair.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
  • His passion for baseball proved to be the best therapy for him.
    — Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2022
  • One side of the building includes therapy rooms for adults.
    — Katheryn Houghton, CBS News, 24 May 2023
  • The work consumed her life and that of her colleagues; the need for therapy is mentioned in the story more than once.
    — Longreads, 26 July 2024
  • But Buck is somebody who did embrace the need for therapy, the need to talk about your problems and face them.
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
  • To help him, his family plans to take him back to therapy.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
  • A lot of you have talked openly about your embrace of therapy.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
  • In short, these hockey men need therapy, as well as love.
    — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Speech therapy can help those with loss of language, Kaelin said.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a form of nature therapy.
    — Matt Pawlik, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
  • Weinberg says that as many as 75% of kids and young adults will get over it without any therapy.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Life will be open to the public, such as the cafe, select healing therapies and the spa, for which anyone can buy a $100 day pass.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Wayne and Wanda Wanda is a wise person who has loved, lost and been to therapy.
    — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Over the past year, she’s examined this part of her life in therapy and locates a lot of her trouble here.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • To honor the milestone, Flav — born Jonathan Drayton Jr. — offered to pay for the cost of subscriptions to a therapy app for the day.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • That's one of the reasons Catherine is in feeding therapy.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • In Utah, those who ran the therapy voucher program have been hesitant to approach lawmakers for state support.
    — Jessica Schreifels, ProPublica, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Moreover, these two experiments, which together tested separate therapies across 18 patients, offered hints that those cells, once implanted in the brain, might work as intended.
    — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 9 May 2025

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