caress
Example Sentences
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I caress the smooth wood and wait for something to happen.
From Literature
I’m lying on a heated massage bed, cocooned in a soft, weighted blanket, as Kayla Faraji caresses my cheeks with billowy, pink goose feathers.
From Los Angeles Times
In the video, a gray pit bull named Valerio stood on a woman’s lap, furiously wagging his tail as he accepted her caresses.
From Los Angeles Times
A cool gust of air swept through her thin nightdress and caressed her face, an exquisite relief from the stale and heavy air of the house.
From Literature
We see Ella Fitzgerald at New York’s Basin Street East in the mid-1950s; her eyes closed, she gently leans into a microphone that she caresses with both hands.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
