go soft
Example Sentences
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Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello is still on duty to make sure she doesn’t go soft.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Her voice is all grace and clarity as it moves across her throat, but when it’s time to verbalize the melody, she becomes artfully tentative, making her lyrics go soft and chewy in her mouth.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021
But Krantz’s mother, a lawyer for Legal Aid who was always dressed to the nines, did not want Judith and her siblings to go soft in their life of privilege.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2019
It also refuses to go soft on any of its characters, many of whom are interviewed by Goffard and readily describe their own blindness, cowardice and seemingly inexplicable actions.
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2018
I close my eyes and feel my body go soft and light, and then I force myself to stop.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
