Sentence examples for a tender spot from inspiring English sources

Unknowingly, the child had touched a tender spot.

Miss Stewart hit a tender spot in homesick soldiers' hearts.

This is still a tender spot, one that seems certain to become ever more inflamed.

Chuck Wepner placed his giant hand on Liev Schreiber's spine and felt a tender spot.

But the subject is a tender spot for officials of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

And he never did get a degree, still a tender spot with him.

MTrPs are characterized by an exquisite tender spot, a taut band, referred pain, a local twitch response, motor dysfunction, and an autonomic phenomenon [ 1].

The anaesthetic did indeed wear off during the course of the performance so that when I hit a suddenly tender spot there was an agonised yelp uncatered for in Larkin's muted verse.

If you hit a particularly tender spot, you could cause a sudden, sharp pain that makes him turn around and nip you.

In conclusion our findings suggest that heavy rolling massage on muscles containing a hypersensitive tender spot (Ipsi-R) can provide an acute increase in pain threshold.

(Indeed, the program is trying to make veterans more aware of the dogs' availability). Some women have a particularly tender spot for these ex-soldiers.