Sentence examples for almost as gently from inspiring English sources

It stirred and leaned and - almost slowly, almost as gently as a falling leaf - fell, with a swish and thump to the ground.

Go about catching as gently as possible.

The village borders a river where children splash and play and climb trees, exotic blue-and-red birds swoop low and lone canoeists gently push through a surface almost as smooth as glass.

Pinching one corner of the skin between the knife blade and your thumb, gently pull it away from the avocado, almost as you would peel a banana.

She claps gently and gives her fist a half-pump, almost as if afraid that someone will see.

Her eyes gently shut and body spread wide, it's almost as if femininity is considered most beautiful when lifeless, that a woman is most desirable as an aesthetically pleasing spread of inactive parts.

To dry the skin of the salmon, drag a knife blade gently but firmly over the skin several times, almost as if you are sharpening a razor on a strop.

The world conjured up in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Netflix) is less neat and tidy but almost as unreal.

It's worth almost as much today as when we bought it," Curry continues, and after that gently mocking insinuation we see Darryl Kerrigan for the first time, watering his garden with a big smile plastered across his face.

But, as gently as he could, he made it clear that there was now almost no hope that anyone could still be found alive and be rescued.

Proudly she spoke of the company's past, gently she connected its African-American element to its transcendent success, and then, almost as if in passing, she linked this to the election of the first black president of the United States.