gently

How To Use gently In A Sentence

• I let them down gently, first wriggling out of my board duties (in which I never held a great deal of interest anyway), and then letting go of the technical reins.
• Absorbing throughout, her film is troubling, well-illustrated and cogently argued. Times, Sunday Times
• To touch up make-up to get rid of shine, gently press a dry tissue to your skin to absorb excess grease, or use grease-absorbing make-up tissues.
• Many of the bays and inlets are simply beautiful and consist of rock or sand, sometimes dropping away dramatically into 50 feet of water, at other times sloping gently in to shallows of just a few feet.
• With its elongated snake-like body, the Leopard Moray eel moves very gently from one end to the other in the tank.
• Once the more resistant gently dipping rocks of the Cotswolds have been removed, the underlying softer beds are easily eroded, so the Jurassic escarpments to the east of the Vales of Evesham and Gloucester retreated through time.
• The garden sloped gently downward to the river.
• It is a big sweep of soft, pale coral sand shelving gently into the Ionian sea. The Sun
• White snow gently fell onto the glass of the skylight, melting away.
• If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently. Dr T.P.Chia