gentleness
Example Sentences
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"Your wild imagination, your brave untethered womanhood, your ferocious gentleness is a guiding light to me."
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
Spryly hilarious, Kelly lends the henpecked husband’s subversive streak a bumbling gentleness.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024
That gentleness is surprising in a tool as powerful as an elephant’s trunk.
From NewsForKids.net • Jun. 20, 2024
What emerges is a drama that takes on difficult questions with surprisingly gentleness, eschewing scandal or violence.
From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2024
He spoke roughly to Dionysus, who answered him with entire gentleness, seeming to try to reach his real self and open his eyes to see that he was face to face with divinity.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing gentleness
"American Names"
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ness
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The Suffix -ness, Part 2
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