Sentence examples for gently as if from inspiring English sources

(JJ) A young woman in a blue veil looks up from her book at something we can't see; she puts out her right hand gently, as if catching the invisible breath of the Holy Spirit.

Then he smiles gently, as if amused by his former silliness.

He strummed it gently, as if it were a classical guitar.

Sometimes you've gotten a second wind, he said gently, as if asking a question.

She pronounces the words gently, as if they were incantations that could make objects materialize.

The rocking chair nods gently, as if someone had just vacated it.

If I think it's a good match, I try to gently — as gently as I can — nudge it".

Cerviño blushed once more, but gently now, as if he felt honored by so much solicitude.

During a take, his body tenses, and he sometimes gently sways as if in sympathetic motion with the actors.

Meanwhile, a young woman behind Barbaro, holding a poster, looked at her watch, tiptoed to the sidewalk, and laid the poster gently down, as if it were a picnic blanket, then walked away.

I could see the battle-hardened Soviet soldier watching the pompous propagandist playing at being the warrior, and then gently intervening as if to say "there there, give it to me, hairy eyebrows.