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softly

adverb as in lightly

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For several agonizing minutes, they sit together saying nothing, as Black Sabbath’s mystical ballad “Solitude” plays softly on the stereo.

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Together, the crowd exhaled three long, loud sighs, then tapped their chests in unison, repeating softly: “This is my heart. This is my heart. This is my heart.”

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A movie played softly in the background, something neither of us was really watching.

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We say that the kind of stimulation that activates involuntary attention has to be what we call “softly fascinating.”

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His voice shook, and he spoke very softly.

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