are caressing
- present progressive of caress.
Example Sentences
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Particular currents of air, with particular levels of humidity, are caressing your skin.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2019
Worshippers are caressing its gilded bars, Muslims and Christians venerating it together.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2017
Flowers are caressing, And sending a blessing To all now confessing To be to them kind.
From My Flower-pot Child's Picture Book by Unknown
On the other side of the door is No. 1129, the perfect "Madonna del Cardellino" of Raphael, so called from the goldfinch that the little boys are caressing.
From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Perhaps our familiar habit of calling our children "scamp" and "rascal," when we are caressing them, may be founded on a worn-out superstition of the same kind.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
