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Example sentences for "tenderly"

Lexicographically close words:
tenderfoots; tenderhearted; tendering; tenderloin; tenderloins; tenderness; tendernesse; tendernesses; tenders; tendeth
  1. His Indian mistress was as kind to him as her circumstances permitted,--procuring medicinal herbs and roots for her patient, and tenderly watching over him in the long winter nights.

  2. She sat down beside her mother and taking her hand pressed it tenderly against her cheek.

  3. And she talked much and tenderly about you afterwards.

  4. Tenderly embracing her, he then quitted the room.

  5. No Bedouin Arab ever loved his horse more tenderly than Turpin.

  6. Henri knelt beside her, passed his arm around her inert and charming body, and drew her tenderly toward him.

  7. Was it, after all, only by chance that she had so tenderly pronounced his name, and had that familiar appellative only been drawn from her involuntarily because of her surprise at beholding his unexpected presence at her bedside?

  8. A ray of light, filtering through the window-curtains, showed her the anxious face bending tenderly over her.

  9. Very tenderly was he lifted up and laid in her arms.

  10. I was prostrate with high fever, through which I was tenderly watched by Mrs. Bryan, aided by friends whose approach I did not now repel.

  11. Her husband sought most tenderly to soothe her grief, and secretly resolved to undermine the "superstition which caused the dear girl so much unhappiness.

  12. The tenderly spoken good wishes of his wife fell very gratefully, like refreshing dew, upon his heart; but he was distinctly conscious of not being happy.

  13. And so the matter was pushed aside, neither mother nor aunt imagining that the bright and beautiful boy they both loved so tenderly had received a lesson in dishonesty not soon to be forgotten.

  14. Very tenderly he loved his little one; and as she lay nestling against him, he could not help thinking of the time when he was a child, and when the New Years were happy ones.

  15. The Story of this rich, sad, striving, unsatisfied life, with its depths of emotion and its surface sparkling and glowing, is told tenderly and reverently by her biographers.

  16. He desired to touch her, to give some sign of his mastery, whether tenderly or with rude force mattered little.

  17. The stranger, who was regarding her with tenderly compassionate eyes, said: 'I am Mrs. Mutimer.

  18. Contrast the foreheads; on the one hand that tenderly shadowed curve of brow, on the other the surface which always seemed to catch too much of the light, which moved irregularly with the arches above the eyes.

  19. But they carried him tenderly back to their cave, and making a rough sledge for him; then brought him safely with their prisoner into the camp at Fort William Henry.

  20. Say not so," cried Fritz, taking the little hand and holding it tenderly between his own.

  21. He was kneeling beside our uncle, and asking him tenderly if he were hurt.

  22. Drink, my son," said Pasquale, holding his head up very tenderly with one of his rough hands.

  23. But he caught her hand tenderly and brought it to his lips, holding it there.

  24. And when he met with a fatal accident, he was tenderly nursed by both for months, and when the doctor was at last obliged to put him out of pain by prussic acid, their grief was sincere.

  25. After he was really dead, and Tom with tears rolling down his face carried him tenderly away, I woke from my ambitious dream and felt verily guilty of aviscide.

  26. Mary put her arm tenderly around her husband's neck; and now it was with her as it is often with generous and tender-hearted women, when all opposition to their wishes is withdrawn, they begin to see the other side.

  27. She taxed him with it, and asked him tenderly what it was.

  28. My heart went out to the boy as I saw him merge and lose himself in the crowd; I felt very tenderly not only toward those of my flesh, but to all young things facing the hurly-burly of this oddly jumbled sphere.

  29. I should talk tenderly to the boy--but in my heart I own I did not feel tenderly toward him.

  30. The Duke of Guise and his wife constantly visited the good old lady, whose name appears so often in Antoinette's letters, and who now embraced her new granddaughter tenderly and gave the bridal pair her blessing.

  31. The reigning Duke, Charles, had grown up with the young King and Queen, and was tenderly beloved by them.

  32. May, 1608, and was tenderly nursed during his last illness by his youngest daughter, Catherine, and his sister Dorothea.

  33. The fine old man was in his seventy-third year, and had been tenderly nursed all through a long illness by his wife.

  34. Laurent spoke tenderly to him, and told him he should be better taken care of.

  35. He was tenderly nursed by his mother and aunt, and his sister played with him; but there was no peace in their minds, and no mirth in their faces, to cheer his young heart.

  36. Very tenderly he took the little hand that lay trembling in her lap.

  37. For a long time she kneeled beside the body of the young Indian whom she had so tenderly nursed back to health.

  38. Her husband clasped her hand and looked tenderly into her eyes.

  39. He blushed up to the roots of his fair hair, then leaped down from the seat and very tenderly lifted the little stranger up on the seat of the wagon.

  40. Joshua Peniman lifted her tenderly and bore her in his arms to their own wagon.

  41. So they carried Barthow, senseless as he was, tenderly into the church; and he became E, 27, on an iron bedstead.

  42. The latter said, "Did he ever speak to you tenderly or passionately?

  43. MASHA (crossing to him, at once tenderly and savagely).

  44. He watched with interest the news of his early efforts, and tenderly mourned his fate.

  45. Slowly she approached the couch of the sufferer, tenderly she reached down to enfold him.

  46. These men were very tenderly nursed by the Loyalists.

  47. She kissed him, clasping his poor frail form to her heart as though he were a child, and tenderly smoothing back his venerable snow-white hair.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenderly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carefully; delicately; diligently; easily; gently; industriously; lovingly; painstakingly; passionately; softly; tenderly; thoroughly