caressing
Example Sentences
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Jareth is an illusionist as beguiling and seductive as he is sinister, caressing bubbles and gravity-defiant glass spheres with liquid grace.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
Her prose is exact and exquisite, as when describing Clare: “The soft white face, the bright hair, the disturbing scarlet mouth, the dreaming eyes, the caressing smile, the whole torturing loveliness.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
With the cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, he shows them off beautifully, caressing them in light so that they look lit from within.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024
"My hands burn in this heat," she tells me, gently caressing her fingertips.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2024
The sky was radiant, the air on his cheek miraculously caressing.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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