tenderly

How To Use tenderly In A Sentence

• I stroked my violin tenderly; caressing the wood like a mother would an infant.
• She tenderly cares for her bedridden mother (euthanasia not being next on her agenda).
• He took in a deep breath, touching my body gently, tenderly… hesitantly.
• Then our antihero is seen tenderly removing the fish from the boat’s hull. Archive 2007-06-01
• Her somnolent black eyes and tenderly pursed pink lips intrude upon the eggshell delicacy of her face with the most delicate affection.
• Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
• She reached for a silver hairbrush and tenderly began brushing her hair.
• I can't help feeling mighty sorry for him, if the foster birdling is really going to fly away from his nest after he has reared and loved her so tenderly, but, after all, it is only the history of the human race. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
• Timothy tenderly swept stray locks of hair from her face.
• On love, in all its many manifestations, few other poets have written so tenderly and so variously about the subject.