fondling

Example Sentences

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In movie after movie, Streep is constantly fidgeting with, fondling, removing or twirling her glasses.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2022

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

Instead of accessing the quarter-life crisis through the exploits of a solitary protagonist bumbling and fondling his way up against the limitations society had set for him, this film focused on relationships.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2014

I have an irrational and totally unlike-me urge to thank that security guard—Irene—but she’s a few feet away and busy fondling someone else’s stuff.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon