caress
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One woman paused before the display and raised her hand to caress an image.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
Instead of the full-throated, Pavarotti-style belt that’s common in this repertoire, Mr. Pati makes a familiar song like “O sole mio” as gentle as a caress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
“Sometimes she’ll say, ‘Mariella,’ and she’ll caress my hand,” the pre-K teacher says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
“I, too, need Jesus to caress me, come close to me,” Francis said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Mammals characteristically nuzzle, fondle, hug, caress, pet, groom and love their young, behavior essentially unknown among the reptiles.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
In Ain Ebel's cemetery, Jallad caresses her son's tombstone, surrounded by women trying to comfort her.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
I’m lying on a heated massage bed, cocooned in a soft, weighted blanket, as Kayla Faraji caresses my cheeks with billowy, pink goose feathers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026
We see Ella Fitzgerald at New York’s Basin Street East in the mid-1950s; her eyes closed, she gently leans into a microphone that she caresses with both hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
She picks up a doll with red hair and caresses it gently.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023
She turns to me and caresses my cheek.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
Two girls, their faces streaked with tears, gently caressed the face of a dead man, wrapped in a sheet with a floral motif, and then hugged each other tightly.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025
During a performance at an Atlanta event in September, the “Ride With Me” rapper and his now-wife playfully caressed her stomach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
"She quietly passed away as if asleep while I caressed her," Atsuko Sato wrote on her blog, thanking Kabosu's fans.
From BBC ● May 24, 2024
During those early days, according to Dass’s medical record, she caressed her daughter, was caring and attentive and seemed to be adjusting well to her new role.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Melvin, who died later on in Korea, caressed the slow August landscape, chasing butterflies.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
I even ponied up for a pay-per-view a few years back to see Mayweather spend eight rounds gently caressing Jake’s overmatched older brother, Logan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Jareth is an illusionist as beguiling and seductive as he is sinister, caressing bubbles and gravity-defiant glass spheres with liquid grace.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
With the cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, he shows them off beautifully, caressing them in light so that they look lit from within.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
The ball banked high off the backboard, caressing the front of the rim before falling through the net as the buzzer sounded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
She sat back on his lap, this time caressing his face and talking to him, words that Ophie couldn’t hear.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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