- present participle of fondle.
fondling
Example Sentences
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“It was for one of the Shakespeare histories and it was just close-ups of a man fondling his cuffs and touching his tie,” Kingsman said on a recent afternoon.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
Two posts later, she’s fondling ill falcons and owls at a Saudi veterinary hospital.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2018
Ivory doesn't have much success in filling in the elisions, but Guadagnino's direction compounds the superficiality with camerawork that can't resist fondling every surface it encounters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2018
This has been going on forever – certainly since Ovid wrote of Pygmalion kissing and fondling his statue until the gods took pity.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2017
Jake loitered on a corner, fondling the change in his pocket.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
