gently

[ US /ˈdʒɛntɫi/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒˈɛntli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a gradual manner
    a gently sloping terrain
  2. in a gentle manner
    he talked gently to the injured animal
  3. with little weight or force
    she kissed him lightly on the forehead
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How To Use gently In A Sentence

  • Absorbing throughout, her film is troubling, well-illustrated and cogently argued. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • With its elongated snake-like body, the Leopard Moray eel moves very gently from one end to the other in the tank.
  • 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 
  • An hour later, a broomstick settled gently on the lawn.
  • Nutty sweetbreads, bitter greens, gently brash shallots, and velvety chanterelles suffuse farfalle in well-oiled repertory.
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