fondling

Example Sentences

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Jewelry is a recurring totem across her work, with characters fondling rings, bracelets, necklaces.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2018

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

At the window he stood watching her, his eyebrows pulled together into waves of compassion, his tongue fondling the worn gold in his upper jaw.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison