Example Sentences

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Last week he was fondling two newborn brain children: the Tubadipdrip, a combination coffeemaker-teamaker and cocktail mixer, and the Tempot, a combination fireless cooker-ice cream freezer-frozen food locker-foot bath-thermos chest-dishwasher-air conditioner and bachelor's chef.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Miss Lavinia was scolding one sister for a clumsy servant, she was fondling the flying, soft yellow hair of the other.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

I was sitting up very straight beside her listening to every word Mr. Wood said, and she was fondling my head.

From Beautiful Joe by Saunders, Marshall

The mother had taken the little Prince in her lap and was fondling and kissing him lovingly, for he was her youngest born.

From Ozma of Oz by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

Over the head of the bear-cub she was fondling, Helga watched it also, with unseeing eyes.

From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)