tenderly
Example Sentences
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Despite the romantic sounding title, this 1974 song, external is actually the sound of Parton tenderly asking her musical mentor, Porter Wagoner, to let her go and pursue her solo career.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ms. Clark imbues Hillcrest with eerie metaphoric resonance, making it both forbidding and tenderly familiar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Maybe there was a memo sent round the royal households of Europe, but many of this year's Christmas cards seem to have similar images of showing their families holding on to each other tenderly.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
We’re introduced to him not as a thief, but as a doting father who wakes at the crack of dawn, tenderly lays his son in bed next to his sister, and heads off to work.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025
As she handed the young man his cup, she tenderly straightened his hair in a motherly gesture as she propped up his head.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
