go soft
Example Sentences
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Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello is still on duty to make sure she doesn’t go soft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Her voice is all grace and clarity as it moves across her throat, but when it’s time to verbalize the melody, she becomes artfully tentative, making her lyrics go soft and chewy in her mouth.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021
But Krantz’s mother, a lawyer for Legal Aid who was always dressed to the nines, did not want Judith and her siblings to go soft in their life of privilege.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2019
I felt like there was no way that I could go soft on him.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2018
But her eyes didn’t go soft or anything like she understood the heavy sack of sorrows I was carrying around.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
