tenderly

Example Sentences

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He holds her hand tenderly, before she threads the needle and gets to work.

From New York Times

And “The Man with the Axe” tenderly recounts a relationship with someone who “felled me clean as a pine.”

From Los Angeles Times

The traditional image of a caregiver, Fagan writes, is someone — usually a woman — “tenderly spooning soup into a loved one’s mouth.”

From Washington Post

Small but mighty, the film uses only a few claustrophobic locales — a car, a house and a spot in the woods — to tenderly examine grief, loss and what happens when healing has no end date.

From New York Times

For me, I feel like that sentence could end with, "and then you are tenderly scraped from the ceiling."

From Salon