caress

Instead of the full-throated, Pavarotti-style belt that’s common in this repertoire, Mr. Pati makes a familiar song like “O sole mio” as gentle as a caress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

Longley said: "The first thing you notice here is the silence, and the caress of the sea air."

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024

“Sometimes she’ll say, ‘Mariella,’ and she’ll caress my hand,” the pre-K teacher says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2023

“I, too, need Jesus to caress me, come close to me,” Francis said.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them, as Snape was doing, with a loving caress in his voice?

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

D’Angelo asks that question — worries it, caresses it, plumbs its unseen depths — no fewer than two dozen times in what might have been his signature hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

He grew up playing street football in the suburbs of Stockholm and there is still an element of that to his playing style now, with the way he caresses the ball and his dribbling ability.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025

And she caresses the lyrics like Iz used to.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

A rescuer gently caressed their heads and offered them biscuits and water, before leading them away to safety.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

They battled through the contest and had only one shot on target, which came in the sixth minute when former Toffee Alex Iwobi's caressed shot was batted out by Pickford.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2023

From being caressed by Drew Barrymore to shutting down Ozempic naysayers, and even lighting the Empire State Building, here’s everything Oprah managed to accomplish by Wednesday morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

Its lovely wings flapped, and the gentle waves of air it created caressed Nathan’s eyelids.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

“I’m lucky I’m from the best country in the world, and we’ve got great dentists there, too,” Hughes said while caressing the gold medal hanging from his neck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 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

Her prose is exact and exquisite, as when describing Clare: “The soft white face, the bright hair, the disturbing scarlet mouth, the dreaming eyes, the caressing smile, the whole torturing loveliness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

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 was caressing my cornrows; she liked to do that, to trace the way strands of hair from different parts of my scalp meshed and held together.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie