Sentence examples for gently bumping from inspiring English sources

Caitlin is still zigzagging along, gently bumping into alternate banks at regular intervals.

The pod felt like a cocoon – albeit one I kept gently bumping into in my first restless minutes.

And Mr. Wright began gently bumping against his parent company's conservative financial constraints as he tried to pull off a series of acquisitions to expand his entertainment empire.

Regularly, in his telling, he actually is a conspirator, a rock 'n' roll Zelig gently bumping up against history -- with Cash at his Folsom Prison concert, giving Dylan ideas for his set list, getting uppers from Waylon Jennings.

Members of one group were brought, one by one, into a waiting room with two other "students", one black and one white, who were, in fact, in on the experiment.As they waited, the black "student" stepped out of the room to retrieve a mobile phone, gently bumping the knee of the white "student" on the way out.

That's a good point, nicely put; perhaps even too good, for the suspicion remains that Coupland's characters are little more than handy storage depots for their creator's observations -- thought balloons with people attached, floating across cloudless skies, gently bumping into one another.

My skeg gently bumped on the bigger rocks.

Occasionally, the men gently bump one another, like seven sleepwalkers in seven separate dreams.

As the two spacecraft passed over the South Pacific at 2 02 p.m. Eastern time, they gently bumped together and docked.

Alas, since then things have gone south, and last week's defeat to Stoke was their fifth in a row as they gently bump their way down the table.

This kind of crowd means it should mostly be avoided, with PC Hooftstraat the axis on which wealthy Lowlanders congregate to air-kiss (three times, FYI) and gently bump SUVs.