dabbing
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It made me well up, which embarrassed me until I glanced around the room and noticed a few others dabbing their eyes, too.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
Soon, these glasses would make him double over in laughter when she performed and cried, dabbing her eyes with tissue through the frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
“He never told anyone what to say,” she said, occasionally dabbing her eyes with a tissue as she spoke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
"You have given him the best birthday gift he could ever have," she said, dabbing away tears and occasionally pausing to collect herself.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
I look down from the stage and see Mom dabbing at her eyes with a handkerchief in the front row.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
"It's very dreadful," Mrs. Hardy was saying, between dabbings of her perfumed handkerchief on eyes that bore witness to the genuineness of her distress.
From The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead
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