Sentence examples for gently harder from inspiring English sources

Rub the spot gently (harder if needed) in a circular motion.

Then you jiggle it until it finds the center of the hard stalk and gently, firmly, lift it straight up.

There, in the intense steam heat, a masseuse beats you with eucalyptus branches full of leaves at first gently, then harder.

"She knelt before me on the shed floor and tugged gently, then harder until finally it came.

Start off gently, hit harder when necessary.

In his weekly support group at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, he gently offers hard-won wisdom to newer members.

"You can 'break' it a thousand times," said Frank Tjepkema of Amsterdam, who designed the vase with Peter van der Jagt, and it still looks like a gently cracked hard-boiled egg.

An edge case, To be sure, but it would be control

If all the above do not work, smack it gently but hard enough to feel a little bit of pain.

Tap each egg gently against a hard surface to create a network of small, connected cracks all over.

(Chinen) STEVE DAVIS QUINTET (Wednesday and Thursday) "Update" (Criss Cross), a recent album by the trombonist Steve Davis, earns its title by gently bringing 1950s hard bop into a modern sphere.