Sentence examples for answered gently from inspiring English sources

"That's normal," Mr. Murdoch answered gently.

"Well, an e-mail from Scripps came," she answered, gently.

Asked if he would mind being photographed at the dealership, he answered gently.

"No," I answered gently and plainly.

"I am afraid so," I answer gently, "but I will do everything in my power to keep him well for as long as I can".

"Is she gone to bed?" "She was here a moment ago," says Mrs Norris – before Fanny herself answers gently from somewhere in the shadows at the end of the room, "which was a very long one".

"I don't think I could, no," Mary answers gently.

Mr. Tulk, as he recalls in the film, gently answered, "I would love to be your brother, Glenn," but "I have four brothers and a sister" who might want some say in the matter.

On "Las Flores de la Vida" (World Circuit/Nonesuch), Compay Segundo, whose nickname, "Compadre Second," comes from his career of singing not lead but lower harmony with another man, revives a courtly style in which the men's self-pity is answered by pairs of gently chiding clarinets.

Kemp likens the opening "snarling trumpet triad" to "a descent into Hades", but it is answered immediately by a gently mournful phrase in the strings.

In time, she learned to answer her tormentors "gently and intelligently".