Example Sentences

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The material doesn’t want sophisticated adults mucking about in it or, worse, gentling its hard edges for commercial consumption.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024

Like a grade-school teacher, the matrix provides a physical framework that supports and organizes the cells, gentling and channeling them to harmoniously create a functional tissue.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

These handling and gentling exercises will essentially be like playing doctor with your puppy.

From Fox News • Mar. 23, 2022

This gentling spares many vulnerable kids years of suffering.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2013

Her bare hands worked them into the ground, prodding and gentling, as if putting to bed an endless supply of small children.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver