gentleness
Example Sentences
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Sweetly recreating Michael’s delicate speaking voice and his gentleness while avoiding coming across as too weird, Mr. Jackson is so charming that it’s easy to forget about Michael’s sins for two hours.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
"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
Rather he spoke with a gentleness that I did not know was in him.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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