caress
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His left hand clutches a silver teapot in a gesture midway between a caress and a grasp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The boy and the mom are beloved, but it’s their own face that each is shown to caress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Longley said: "The first thing you notice here is the silence, and the caress of the sea air."
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024
Unlike in civilian life, where puppies often get food treats, in the military the only prize for a job well done is a caress and some praise.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
She always waited by the front door on the last day of school, to sing praise songs in Igbo and hug Jaja and me and caress our report cards in her hands.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A stable is secured, and the mare, who senses that something strange is going on, is indulged with apples and caresses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
In Ain Ebel's cemetery, Jallad caresses her son's tombstone, surrounded by women trying to comfort her.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
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 The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
She picks up a doll with red hair and caresses it gently.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023
He caresses the car and whispers something to it.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Two girls, their faces streaked with tears, gently caressed the face of a dead man, wrapped in a sheet with a floral motif, and then hugged each other tightly.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025
"She quietly passed away as if asleep while I caressed her," Atsuko Sato wrote on her blog, thanking Kabosu's fans.
From BBC ● May 24, 2024
One study even showed that healthy young adults who caressed a robotic baby seal were happier, and felt less pain from a mild heat stimulus, than those who read an article about an astronomer.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
The reunion ended up going viral for a whole ’nother reason after the “Saturday Night Fever” star caressed and cupped Menzel’s face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
His hands caressed the camera around his neck; his thumb hovered by the shutter button.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Europa, the king’s daughter, becomes enamored of the creature, entwining his horns with flowers and caressing him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Jareth is an illusionist as beguiling and seductive as he is sinister, caressing bubbles and gravity-defiant glass spheres with liquid grace.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
I no longer notice the flashes of lime green tape caressing door frames, encircling bathroom floors and smothering naked outlets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
With the cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, he shows them off beautifully, caressing them in light so that they look lit from within.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
She had her hands on either side of his face, caressing him, and then she pulled him into a hug.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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