Example Sentences

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As long as art has been on public display, visitors have caressed, attacked, broken, or made unauthorized additions to it.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2022

He could not have caressed three more sensitive German desires.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lips of the dead have touched you!—the hands of the dead have caressed you!…

From In Ghostly Japan by Hearn, Lafcadio

And I knew then that the river might have cared for us, might have caressed us, might have sung to us, but he swept broadly onwards, thinking of nothing but the princely ships.

From A Dreamer's Tales by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

He would have caressed and consoled me, but I would have none of it.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller