cushioning effect in a sentence

Examples

1. Wales also has two stepdaughters, both in their early 30s and living away from the family home in Newton, Mass . " We had two young women, foreign exchange students, staying with us last year and that had a cushioning effect but now the nest is really empty and I'm feeling it, " Wales said.
2. If the pilot was expecting this to happen, he could probably throttle back or reduce the collective pitch to cut the helicopter's lift-but unlike coming in to land where the negative feedback gives you a gentle cushioning effect that makes landing easy-the positive feedback sucking you upwards would be like a magnet pulling you where the closer you get, the more pull there would be.