tenderly
Example Sentences
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Grandma came over and very tenderly pinched my muscle between two fingers.
From Literature
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She smiles tenderly and brings her hand to her chest.
From Literature
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Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.
From Salon
“I do,” she said, and she tenderly patted my hand.
From Literature
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Maybe there was a memo sent round the royal households of Europe, but many of this year's Christmas cards seem to have similar images of showing their families holding on to each other tenderly.
From BBC
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