tenderness
Example Sentences
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Without resorting to jingoism or over-sentimentality, he began to write with increasing tenderness about his native country—its climate, its countryside, its particular temperament.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
What it lacks in explosivity and pacing, “The Complex” at times compensates for in tension, tenderness and tenacity.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
A.I. can be sassy, but it cannot write the tenderness of a high school drama club.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
The Beast loved the Bog and the Bog loved the Beast, just as a person loves the image of himself in a quiet pond of water; and looks upon it with tenderness.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
Vocabulary lists containing tenderness
Novel Study: The Crucible, Acts 3–4
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Crenshaw
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The Suffix -ness, Part 1
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