caressing

Example Sentences

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Caressing his consonants and trumpeting his vowels, he handled the witty dialogue with astonishing aplomb.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2016

Caressing the river’s surface with a kayak paddle, he looked as if the top of his head might just clear the bridge.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2012

Later, there was the equally astonishing case of Pompeo Batoni’s “Venus Caressing Cupid” selling for $1.76 million.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2011

Pale broken lights that close our heavenly view Caressing eve ere weeps the twilight dew, Tender ye are as love smiles shining through Life's parting hour: adieu, dark day, adieu!

From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.

He comes to drain a beggar's purse; He comes to tie our chains on faster, And show us England is our master: Caressing knaves, and dunces wooing, To make them work their own undoing.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst