Example Sentences

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She reached her hand toward the phone screen, as if she were caressing his hair.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2020

While the children were caressing Tom Jonah and the superintendent was striving to pacify the indignant Aunt Sarah, Agnes and Neale came panting to the pound.

From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks

Her manners were caressing, her voice sweetly modulated, and her powers of conversation wonderfully varied.

From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

They were caressing, smiling eyes, and looked boldly into mine.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Rohmer, Sax

It was as though the morning were caressing the loathly creature,—trying to heal with pitying touch his self-inflicted scars of yesterday.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)