caresses

Example Sentences

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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

Within sight of the fierce flames Mohammed Atris caresses the fresh green shoots that cover his land.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2022

I told her of the caresses I’d saved for her, the presents with which I’d planned to surprise her, the ways I would have loved her and made her happy.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende