softly
Example Sentences
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Inside, it’s softly lit and smells like a combination of the lavender essential oil mixture we use on the bedding and something pungent and medicinal.
From Literature
As we depart, she says softly, “Perhaps the past isn’t such a lost country after all.”
From Literature
“Coal, when you said that nobody’s allowed you to make your own decisions, I was listening,” she said softly.
From Literature
She passes through the bedroom wall, loops over the fence, hovers over the crowd of 211 before landing softly among the congregants.
From Los Angeles Times
To use it, you lift your hand to your mouth and speak softly to your AI assistant.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
