fondling
Example Sentences
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Two posts later, she’s fondling ill falcons and owls at a Saudi veterinary hospital.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2018
Ivory doesn't have much success in filling in the elisions, but Guadagnino's direction compounds the superficiality with camerawork that can't resist fondling every surface it encounters.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2018
“I was mired in envy,” Ozick told me, nervously fondling a napkin and smoothing and resmoothing the checkered burgundy tablecloth.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2016
The song titles – Choirs of Winter, Haze Interior, Cascades – are almost shoegaze parodying, but it's not all formless FX pedal fondling.
From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2010
Late that afternoon he came back from Lone Pine in a midnight blue Nash sedan, fondling the short, stubby gearshift that projected from its dashboard.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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