is caressing
- present progressive of caress (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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One more time, he is caressing his baby.
From Time ● Sep. 30, 2013
You know well enough that your father would even coin false money to please you, so do you entreat him when he is caressing you to marry me and make me Princess.
From Stories from the Pentamerone by Basile, Giambattista
He conceals, however, all chagrin, and pulls the ears of the sleepy snowball he is caressing with an air of the calmest unconcern.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
And Uncle Theodore is quite confused; just now she was weeping and now she is laughing; just now she was going to marry one man and now she is caressing another.
From Invisible Links by Lagerlöf, Selma
The saint is caressing one, who kneels at his feet; the other has an open book in his hand.
From Fra Bartolommeo by Kendrick, Flora
