Sentence examples for drew gently from inspiring English sources

Mr. Tanaka drew gently haunting sounds (twangy melodic lines, raspy strummed chords, bursts of plucked rhythms) from the biwa, while Mr. Mitsuhashi played elegiac strands on the shakuhachi, alternated with breathy wails and jazzy bent-note turns.

Even Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani was drawn gently into the fray yesterday.

"The last time we had thousands of people here," sighed Isabelle Coutant- Peyre, drawing gently on one of her frequent cheroots and sipping a glass of white wine as we sat at the heated outdoor table of a little bistro behind the Palais de Justice.

Light the tobacco and draw gently.

Move the flame around the surface of the tobacco while drawing gently and evenly until the tobacco is lit, then tamp it gently with a tamper.

Draw gently and rhythmically to avoid overheating the pipe or flustering the tobacco.

Draw gently alongside those who are in need of help and find creative ways to assist them to improve their grades.

From Plaza San Francisco, the boulevard's irresistibly gentle slope draws footsteps gently downward, past monuments and flower gardens, fancy hotels and movie palaces.

From there, the imagery builds gradually, with heavenly fountains drawn in gently cloudy harmonies, smoking incense suggested in a poetically simple line in reedy coloration and, in the work's central movement, the battle of life and death offered in bright, brash colors and dense chromaticism, all of which resolve into graceful serenity (by way of flute timbres) as life prevails.

Bone marrow was then drawn back gently (to prevent lysing of the cells) into the 30-ml syringe that was primed with 4 ml of ACD-A.

The samples were then placed on slides and the excess stain solution drawn off gently from the edges with tissue.