petting
Example Sentences
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Grandma Mae, Mom, and me petting a pig at the fair.
From Literature
“I’m doing what you told me I couldn’t do on the tundra buggy. I’m petting a polar bear.”
From Literature
Half asleep, she reached out for her dog - and instead found herself petting a smooth, slithering object.
From BBC
I haven’t watched the series, so I didn’t understand why we were beheading a stuffed bear, but families seemed thrilled to explore the venue, including petting Uncle Fester’s Chupacabra.
From Barron's
For Ostrovsky, the man who had left his wife and two daughters to get food, everything seemed to be fine when they arrived a little after 5.30 p.m. and saw bubbles and a petting zoo.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
