tenderness
Example Sentences
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Can this help us make sense of the dementia patient’s behavior and think differently about them—to think of them, perhaps, with tenderness?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Now, two years later, Harry Styles walks onto that same floor in pearls and a feather boa, singing about tenderness and change and wanting.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
It is common to get some swelling, redness or tenderness where you have the injection.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
I don’t think I would be who I was if I didn’t show some tenderness towards those spaces that made me, or at least allowed me to see myself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
From that night on Aureliano took refuge in the compassionate tenderness and understanding of his unknown great-great-grandmother.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing tenderness
Novel Study: The Crucible, Acts 3–4
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Crenshaw
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The Suffix -ness, Part 1
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