caresses
Example Sentences
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In Ain Ebel's cemetery, Jallad caresses her son's tombstone, surrounded by women trying to comfort her.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
We see Ella Fitzgerald at New York’s Basin Street East in the mid-1950s; her eyes closed, she gently leans into a microphone that she caresses with both hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
She spots amaranth and caresses the diamond-shaped green leaves, commonly known as pigweed in English.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
She picks up a doll with red hair and caresses it gently.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023
I told her of the caresses I’d saved for her, the presents with which I’d planned to surprise her, the ways I would have loved her and made her happy.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
