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
And forth now he came, with the face that my hands had fondled before, And a battle shield wrought fairly upon his arm he bore, And thereon the wood-wolf’s image in ruddy gold was done.
From The House of the Wolfings by William Morris
The very dogs wandered in a moody, unsettled way about the house, missing the friendly hands that had fondled and fed them for so many days past, and whining impatiently in the deserted drawing-rooms.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
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
The mother, so severe in the presence of the father, had fondled and wept over him.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
