fondle
verb (used with object)
to handle or touch lovingly, affectionately, or tenderly; caress.
had fondled
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past perfectof fondle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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One kept awake to tend her child in its cradle, lulling it with the household words that had fondled her own infancy.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
She had raised them, had fondled them, and now she sees them again only for a moment!
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Ivan Panin
The old-time invitation, "Honey, Jacky—honey," had lost its power, but the smell of the honey, the coat, the hands that he had fondled, had together a hidden potency.
From Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac by Ernest Thompson Seton
To say good-bye forever to the human friends who loved him, and the dear, dumb friends whom he had fondled and tended with such constant care.
From A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black
But it was just as familiar to his recollection as that of the cat which he had fondled in his childhood.
From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
